From tex-users-errors Tue May 22 06:42:27 2001 Flags: 000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from suncore.math.utah.edu (IDENT:u4kmtlWXufjym4pvMYci26TXkJeWaLXp@suncore0.math.utah.edu [128.110.198.5]) by sunshine.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA00554; Tue, 22 May 2001 06:42:27 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from beebe@localhost) by suncore.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA11635; Tue, 22 May 2001 06:42:27 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 06:42:27 -0600 (MDT) From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" To: tex-users@sunshine.math.utah.edu Cc: beebe@sunshine.math.utah.edu X-US-Mail: "Center for Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC, University of Utah, 155 S 1400 E RM 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA" X-Telephone: +1 801 581 5254 X-FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 X-URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe Subject: New $TEX/samples directory Message-ID: A user today asked about typesetting Fraktur fonts in LaTeX 2e. After creating a small set of illustrative samples, it occurred to me that it might be useful to save them for others as well, so I've created the directory $TEX/samples (/usr/local/share/lib/tex/samples). The README file there gives an overview of its contents. As usual, some systems will not be able to see the newly-installed files until after the nightly rdist run. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 - - University of Utah Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu - - Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC beebe@acm.org beebe@computer.org - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@ieee.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tex-users-errors Wed May 23 10:56:21 2001 Flags: 000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from suncore.math.utah.edu (IDENT:DCcmvYfAp8dNLBNCdDBKugTgTY44krYs@suncore0.math.utah.edu [128.110.198.5]) by sunshine.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA17745; Wed, 23 May 2001 10:56:20 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from beebe@localhost) by suncore.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA02380; Wed, 23 May 2001 10:56:19 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 10:56:19 -0600 (MDT) From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" To: sysstaff@sunshine.math.utah.edu, brad@physics.utah.edu, rodgers@sunshine.math.utah.edu, debar@sunshine.math.utah.edu, bnb@ams.org, admin@osl.utah.edu, george@holyrood.ed.ac.uk Cc: beebe@sunshine.math.utah.edu, tex-users@sunshine.math.utah.edu X-US-Mail: "Center for Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC, University of Utah, 155 S 1400 E RM 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA" X-Telephone: +1 801 581 5254 X-FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 X-URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe Subject: Adobe Acrobat 5 problems: heads up Message-ID: Adobe has recently released Acrobat 5 http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/ for Macintosh and Windows http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/systemreqs.html As with version 4, there is no word of UNIX support. Evidently, millions of installed, and stable :^), UNIX systems, with user bases several times that, are not significant in the lofy corporate world that Adobe lives in. MacOS X is not fully supported, but Adobe says that they will do so for this product release: see http://www.adobe.com/products/adobesupportsOSX.html The University of Utah Office of Software Licensing has not yet received Acrobat 5 distribution media, so I have not yet been able to install it. However, as with any new major software release, the first users of Acrobat 5 are already reporting bugs, and the first bug overview that I've come across is at the site of one of the commercial TeX vendors: http://www.micropress-inc.com/acr5bugs.htm You should definitely read it before deciding if/when/where to install Acrobat 5. Unfortunately, the problems affect not only sites that upgrade to 5.0, but also other sites who did not, but who need to read PDF files from the upgraded sites, sigh... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 - - University of Utah Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu - - Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC beebe@acm.org beebe@computer.org - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@ieee.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tex-users-errors Wed May 30 11:24:41 2001 Flags: 000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from orthus.cvrti.utah.edu (orthus.cvrti.utah.edu [155.100.140.2]) by sunshine.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA07110 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 11:24:40 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from macleod@localhost) by orthus.cvrti.utah.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA02649; Wed, 30 May 2001 11:24:40 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 11:24:40 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200105301724.LAA02649@orthus.cvrti.utah.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: orthus.cvrti.utah.edu: macleod set sender to macleod@cvrti.utah.edu using -f From: Rob MacLeod To: tex-users@sunshine.math.utah.edu, gk@carrot.cs.utah.edu Subject: Math characters hammered by Distiller Folks, I just converted the output from dvips to pdf using Adobe Distiller 4.0 and noticed that some of the equation characters (subscripts and superscripts) are getting nuked when I view the result with Adobe Acrobat. However, when I print the pdf file, all is well and the math characters are back. Is there a way to set Distiller to do a better job of this or what are the other pathways of choice to go from LaTeX to pdf? I'd like people to be able to view the document as well as have to print it. Thanks, Rob -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rob MacLeod, Ph.D. University of Utah CVRTI and Bioengineering Dept. 95 South 2000 East Room 207 Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-5000 ____ __o Internet: macleod@cvrti.utah.edu ____ -\<, Phonemail: (801)587-9511 ....0/ 0 Fax: (801)581-3128 URL: www.cvrti.utah.edu/~macleod Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tex-users-errors Wed May 30 11:56:13 2001 Flags: 000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from suncore.math.utah.edu (IDENT:jlIrL09js0YexwCS6qJmwDvXY03Ym7yI@suncore0.math.utah.edu [128.110.198.5]) by sunshine.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA07725; Wed, 30 May 2001 11:56:13 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from beebe@localhost) by suncore.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA28508; Wed, 30 May 2001 11:56:12 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 11:56:12 -0600 (MDT) From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" To: Rob MacLeod Cc: beebe@sunshine.math.utah.edu, tex-users@sunshine.math.utah.edu X-US-Mail: "Center for Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC, University of Utah, 155 S 1400 E RM 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA" X-Telephone: +1 801 581 5254 X-FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 X-URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe Subject: Re: Math characters hammered by Distiller In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 30 May 2001 11:24:40 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: Rob MacLeod writes on Wed, 30 May 2001 11:24:40 -0600 (MDT): >> ... >> I just converted the output from dvips to pdf using Adobe Distiller >> 4.0 and noticed that some of the equation characters (subscripts and >> superscripts) are getting nuked when I view the result with Adobe >> Acrobat. However, when I print the pdf file, all is well and the math >> characters are back. >> ... This is a known, and long-standing, problem. The cause is likely inexperienced, or Windows-centric, programmers at Adobe who failed to understand that a font is just a collection of mappings from character numbers in 0..255 to routines to draw those characters. The culprits incorrectly assumed that font positions 0..31 and 128..159 don't have characters in them, and so Acrobat Distiller 3.0 and/or Reader 3.0 and 4.0 drop characters from fonts that have entries in those locations. Regrettably, there has not been a UNIX release of Acrobat for other than Reader since 3.0, and now 5.0 is out on Mac and Windows systems (with its own new set of problems that people are discovering). One possibility is to use a very recent release of ghostscript (we have 6.64), and run its ps2pdf script to produce the PDF files. Also, make sure to use Type 1 fonts, instead of bitmap fonts. This requires gymnastics with the DVI -> PostScript translators, which we hide in local scripts dvips-type1 and dvialw-type1. For the reason why, see http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/fonts/outline-vs-bitmap-fonts.html A third possibility, for (La)TeX documents, is to use pdftex, which is on recent TeXLive CD-ROMs (and in the $TEX/texlive tree on the Math systems). I do not recommend this, because pdftex is a research prototype that changes daily. Its developer has just been awarded his degree, but development continues under a small team. I've seen enough problems posted in four years of reading the pdftex list that I will not use it myself until it stabilizes. The problem isn't entirely with pdftex; part is due to disagreements between the published PDF specification and Adobe's own implementation thereof in the Acrobat product family. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 - - University of Utah Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu - - Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC beebe@acm.org beebe@computer.org - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@ieee.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tex-users-errors Wed May 30 13:10:31 2001 Flags: 000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from thesel.pair.com (thesel.pair.com [209.68.1.207]) by sunshine.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA08952 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 13:10:30 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 80751 invoked by uid 3065); 30 May 2001 19:10:29 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 30 May 2001 19:10:29 -0000 Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 15:10:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeffrey Gold X-Sender: To: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" cc: Rob MacLeod , Subject: Re: Math characters hammered by Distiller In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dr. Beebe, Come on, can't you knock some sense into your old friend John Warnock? :-) Cheers, Jeffrey _________________________________________________________________ C O R P U S P O L Y M E D I A FILM MUSIC PRINT WEB _________________________________________________________________ Jeffrey Gold Cre8ive Director Corpus Polymedia 333 South Laker Court Salt Lake City, Utah 84102 Tele: 8 0 1 . 2 0 1 . 4 7 5 7 Email: gold@corpuspolymedia.com WWW: www.corpuspolymedia.com _________________________________________________________________ From tex-users-errors Wed Aug 29 18:50:32 2001 Flags: 000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from suncore.math.utah.edu (IDENT:IOuA4JsGvYuIE1YyJPFkr5dBm8ZzG7e9@suncore0.math.utah.edu [128.110.198.5]) by sunshine.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA18578; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 18:50:32 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from beebe@localhost) by suncore.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA22595; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 18:50:31 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 18:50:31 -0600 (MDT) From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" To: tex-users@sunshine.math.utah.edu, inscc-math@sunshine.math.utah.edu, sysstaff@sunshine.math.utah.edu Cc: beebe@sunshine.math.utah.edu X-US-Mail: "Center for Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC, University of Utah, 155 S 1400 E RM 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA" X-Telephone: +1 801 581 5254 X-FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 X-URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe Subject: News: amstex 2.2 installed Message-ID: Late today, I installed the newly-released amstex 2.2 distribution, so that running "amstex", or "tex" followed by "\input amstex", will get the new version, instead of the old 2.1 version of 5-Apr-1991. Since it has been more than a decade since the core of amstex was last updated, you should consider this a major new release. As usual, some clients can see the change already; others will not until after the nightly rdist runs. The old 2.1 version has been preserved on the system in /usr/local/lib/tex/ams/amstex-2.1, while the new one is in /usr/local/lib/tex/ams/amstex-2.2, symlinked to /usr/local/lib/tex/ams/amstex so that no user TEXxxx path variable changes are needed. Here are the AMS release notes: >> ... >> This is AMS-TeX version 2.2. It is mostly a bug fix release, but >> a few important changes have been made: >> >> - The copyright notice is no longer reported at run time, and >> there is no longer an explicit request for use of AMS-TeX to be >> acknowledged. (A footnote "Typeset by AMS-TeX" that appears at >> the bottom of the first page of an article can be removed by >> the command \nologo.) >> >> - An explicit \subclassyear has been added to facilitate reference >> to versions of the Mathematics Subject Classification other than >> the default (1991). >> >> - The definition of \folio was simplified to include only the page >> number, permitting auxiliary packages such as index.tex (from >> texsis) to be used without conflict. >> >> - Empty elements (addresses, thanks, subjclass, caption) are checked >> and extraneous footnotes, punctuation, etc., are suppressed as >> appropriate. >> >> ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 - - University of Utah Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu - - Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC beebe@acm.org beebe@computer.org - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@ieee.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tex-users-errors Sat Sep 1 11:25:11 2001 Flags: 000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from suncore.math.utah.edu (IDENT:QSH0oOHycJ5uK2CR7fRnp8TjijJ4evG+@suncore0.math.utah.edu [128.110.198.5]) by sunshine.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA01762; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 11:25:11 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from beebe@localhost) by suncore.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA10641; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 11:25:11 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 11:25:11 -0600 (MDT) From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" To: tex-users@sunshine.math.utah.edu, inscc-math@sunshine.math.utah.edu Cc: beebe@sunshine.math.utah.edu, sysstaff@sunshine.math.utah.edu X-US-Mail: "Center for Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC, University of Utah, 155 S 1400 E RM 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA" X-Telephone: +1 801 581 5254 X-FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 X-URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe Subject: REVTeX 4 installed Message-ID: In early August, the American Physical Society released REVTeX 4, a major macro package for providing LaTeX-2e document classes for use with APS journals and books. This work was described in a talk presented at the TUG'2001 conference in mid August, and this morning, I installed the package on our main file servers in the directory $TEX/revtex4. As usual, although some clients can see the change today, others will not until after the nightly rdist runs. The previous release remains available in $TEX/revtex-3.1. There is a description of the new package at the APS Web site: http://publish.aps.org/revtex4/ The most significant point is that the new release is based on LaTeX-2e, and can thus be used with packages described in the LaTeX Companion books (3 volumes). The older 3.1 release required LaTeX 2.09. The revtex* directories are not part of our standard TeX search paths, so you have to take special action to make the files visible. I will send email separately to those users holding private copies of the older version. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 - - University of Utah Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu - - Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC beebe@acm.org beebe@computer.org - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@ieee.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tex-users-errors Sat Sep 1 12:05:04 2001 Flags: 000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from suncore.math.utah.edu (IDENT:SEmJfe2r5EmRWFMI5qHYAiLsDywer4/N@suncore0.math.utah.edu [128.110.198.5]) by sunshine.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA02351; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 12:05:03 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from beebe@localhost) by suncore.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA10947; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 12:05:03 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 12:05:03 -0600 (MDT) From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" To: tex-users@sunshine.math.utah.edu, inscc-math@sunshine.math.utah.edu Cc: beebe@sunshine.math.utah.edu, sysstaff@sunshine.math.utah.edu, brad@physics.utah.edu, detar@physics.utah.edu X-US-Mail: "Center for Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC, University of Utah, 155 S 1400 E RM 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA" X-Telephone: +1 801 581 5254 X-FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 X-URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe Subject: LaTeX-2e updated Message-ID: The directory tree $TEX/latex2e has been updated to reflect the most recent version in the CTAN archives (June 2000), replacing the older June 1998 release. The upgrade is expected to be transparent, but just in case, the old latex2e tree has been preserved in /usr/local/share/lib/tex/latex2e.old. The latex2e.fmt file has been updated, so that on startup, latex2e now reports LaTeX2e <2000/06/01> instead of LaTeX2e <1998/06/01> before the upgrade today. The expected LaTeX-2e annual release for June 2001 has been delayed. As usual, although some clients can see the change today, others will not until after the nightly rdist runs. The newsletter files, $TEX/latex2e/ltnews*.{pdf,ps,dvi}, (each 1 page) document the major changes are each LaTeX release since June 1994. I've read those files from December 1998 to date, and while there are interesting developments for LaTeX experts and style designers, none appears to be significant for most users. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 - - University of Utah Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu - - Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC beebe@acm.org beebe@computer.org - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@ieee.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tex-users-errors Sat Sep 1 18:52:11 2001 Flags: 000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from abel.math.harvard.edu (math.harvard.edu [140.247.28.153]) by sunshine.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA05015 for ; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 18:52:10 -0600 (MDT) Received: from exoskeleton.math.harvard.edu (IDENT:allcock@exoskeleton.math.harvard.edu [140.247.28.55]) by abel.math.harvard.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f820q9U14833; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 20:52:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from allcock@localhost) by exoskeleton.math.harvard.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA01133; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 22:15:54 -0400 Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 22:15:54 -0400 Message-Id: <200109020215.WAA01133@exoskeleton.math.harvard.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: exoskeleton.math.harvard.edu: allcock set sender to allcock@exoskeleton.math.harvard.edu using -f From: Daniel Allcock To: tex-users@sunshine.math.utah.edu Subject: periods after section numbers TeX and LaTeX people: Is there a good way to make latex put periods after section numbers in headings? I'd like it to produce 1. Some results on foo and bar instead of 1 Some results on foo and bar I can't find anything useful on this in the latex manual or the latex companion. Thanks for your help, Daniel From tex-users-errors Fri Sep 7 09:31:39 2001 Flags: 000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from suncore.math.utah.edu (IDENT:5ZT6UNPGR7S0gYZNpVinmvW82YKzms0S@suncore0.math.utah.edu [128.110.198.5]) by sunshine.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA07184; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 09:31:38 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from beebe@localhost) by suncore.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA05637; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 09:31:38 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 09:31:38 -0600 (MDT) From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" To: tex-users@sunshine.math.utah.edu, inscc-math@sunshine.math.utah.edu Cc: beebe@sunshine.math.utah.edu X-US-Mail: "Center for Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC, University of Utah, 155 S 1400 E RM 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA" X-Telephone: +1 801 581 5254 X-FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 X-URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe Subject: Changes in TeX font tree Message-ID: I've been doing some major cleanup in the TeX font tree this morning, to regularize the directory structure, and reduce file duplication that has occurred as the tree has grown over the last many years. TeX .tfm files now mostly reside in `tfms' directories, instead of the `300dpi', `600dpi', etc directories that hold the *.*pk font files. This necessitated a change in the system-wide TEXFONTS path. Update your TEXFONTS either by starting a new terminal window, or else in an existing terminal window, doing unsetenv TEXFONTS source /usr/local/skel/SYS.tex ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 - - University of Utah Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu - - Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC beebe@acm.org beebe@computer.org - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@ieee.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tex-users-errors Sat Nov 10 14:43:45 2001 Return-Path: Received: from suncore.math.utah.edu (IDENT:xdv0nNKTlrTH8b+PEpFHHhM2gTWUFLv6@suncore0.math.utah.edu [128.110.198.5]) by sunshine.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA07706; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 14:43:45 -0700 (MST) Received: (from beebe@localhost) by suncore.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA23496; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 14:43:44 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 14:43:44 -0700 (MST) From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" To: tex-users@sunshine.math.utah.edu Cc: beebe@sunshine.math.utah.edu, inscc-math@sunshine.math.utah.edu, applied-math@sunshine.math.utah.edu X-US-Mail: "Center for Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC, University of Utah, 155 S 1400 E RM 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA" X-Telephone: +1 801 581 5254 X-FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 X-URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe Subject: A4 and A paper for TeX output Message-ID: >From time to time, the need arises to process TeX DVI files that have been formatted for ISO A4 paper (210mm x 297mm) for printing on US A-size (8.5in x 11in == 215.9mm x 279.4mm) paper. A4 is a bit narrower, and almost an inch taller, than A. Thus, if you print an A4 document on A paper, text is usually lost at the bottom of the page. The LaTeX a4 style file increases \textheight by 96pt == 1.33in == 33.7mm, but there is often sufficient top and bottom margin space that an A4 page can be repositioned to fit on A paper. If you have the LaTeX or TeX file, you can of course change the page dimensions, or comment out use of the a4 package. However, sometimes only the DVI file is available, perhaps from a remote Web site. This morning, I did something that I should have done a decade ago, but had not thought of before today: I added definitions of two new paper types for the DVI driver family (dvialw, dvijep, et al, but NOT dvips, which appears to lack the necessary flexibility) that allow you to do, e.g., dvialw -paper:A4-on-A A4-doc.dvi dvialw -paper:A-on-A4 A-doc.dvi The former adjusts the page dimensions and origin offset so that a DVI file formatted for A4 paper can be printed on A paper, properly centered. The latter does the reverse. No scaling is required, just a small translation, so output quality is not affected. Since A4 paper is almost unobtainable in the US, only the A4-on-A paper specification is expected to see much local use. The new paper types are defined at the end of the system-wide DVI driver initialization file, /usr/local/share/lib/tex/inputs/dvi.ini, with preceding commentary that documents how the numeric values were derived. If you have only PostScript or PDF files that have been formatted for A4 paper, life is considerably harder. First, you have convert a PDF file to PostScript by, e.g., one of these: acroread -toPostScript -level2 A4-doc.pdf pdf2ps A4-doc.pdf acroread A4-doc.pdf [menu path File -> Print] gv A4-doc.pdf [menu path File -> Save document...] xpdf A4-doc.pdf [click button with printer icon] Then you have to figure out where in the PostScript file you can insert a suitable translate command to be executed at the start of each page. Even though only a small amount of additional PostScript code needs to be inserted, it turns out to be surprisingly difficult to do so, because of the great variation in PostScript files, and because there is no standard PostScript operator that must be executed to start a new page. Such an operator would otherwise be a suitable candidate for redefinition to include an translate command. I have found no reliable recipe for doing this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 - - University of Utah Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu - - Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC beebe@acm.org beebe@computer.org - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@ieee.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tex-users-errors Thu May 9 13:09:29 2002 Return-Path: Received: from plot79.math.utah.edu (IDENT:1epb+wdQMOzOpaSBxyxGJjYgJG+FosDZ@plot79.math.utah.edu [128.110.198.20]) by sunshine.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA16559; Thu, 9 May 2002 13:09:28 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from beebe@localhost) by plot79.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA03662; Thu, 9 May 2002 13:09:28 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 13:09:28 -0600 (MDT) From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" To: tex-users@sunshine.math.utah.edu, inscc-math@sunshine.math.utah.edu, lab@sunshine.math.utah.edu Cc: beebe@sunshine.math.utah.edu X-US-Mail: "Center for Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB, University of Utah, 155 S 1400 E RM 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA" X-Telephone: +1 801 581 5254 X-FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 X-URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe Subject: New versions of dotex, dolatex, et al installed Message-ID: I've just installed new versions of the menu interface to TeX: doamslatex doamstex docweb dolatex doslitex dotex Some systems can see the changes today; others will not have them until tomorrow, after the nightly rdist runs. These scripts have been updated with PDF support, and reordered menus. Please report to me any irregularities that you discover. There are no versions for SGI systems, because the underlying xtmenu program cannot be built on IRIX. The DEC Alpha OSF/1 version hangs without displaying a menu; I'm looking into that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 - - University of Utah Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB beebe@acm.org beebe@computer.org - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@ieee.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tex-users-errors Thu Jan 2 11:03:45 2003 Return-Path: Received: from suncore.math.utah.edu (IDENT:gL+mNV6YFvkgwmnYwFgvjnF+oof3xLCh@suncore0.math.utah.edu [128.110.198.5]) by sunshine.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA03425; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 11:03:45 -0700 (MST) Received: (from beebe@localhost) by suncore.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA07416; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 11:03:45 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 11:03:45 -0700 (MST) From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" To: sysstaff@sunshine.math.utah.edu, "Brad Hawks" , "Carleton Detar" , debar@sunshine.math.utah.edu, tex-users@sunshine.math.utah.edu Cc: beebe@sunshine.math.utah.edu X-US-Mail: "Center for Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB, University of Utah, 155 S 1400 E RM 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA" X-Telephone: +1 801 581 5254 X-FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 X-URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe Subject: News: xdvi-22.70+rulers installed everywhere Message-ID: I've just installed a new version of xdvi, version 22.70+rulers, on all local Mathematics and Physics servers. Some clients can see the changes already today; others will not until tomorrow, after the nightly rdist runs. The new version restores PostScript viewing support, adds a print button, and has two new features that I've developed over the last few days: the magnifier now reports information about the character under the cursor in the center of the magnifier, and about the PostScript graphics special when it is in a region with an embedded picture for which xdvi can determine a bounding box (this is possible only for certain types of PostScript inclusions, but does work with the common epsf package). These two features are ones that I've wanted for years, so it is finally nice to have them. xdvi can be built with three different window toolkits. I've chosen the Motif toolkit where available, since that gives the nicest appearance, and decent-looking dialog popups. When Motif is not available, the Athena Widget library is used: it produces a GUI that is almost identical to the old xdvi, but the dialog popups are frankly awful (but they do work). Older versions remain available as xdvi-18, xdvi-22, nxdvi-18, or nxdvi-22, depending on the platform (do "ls /usr/local/bin/*xdvi*" to see what is available), in case anyone discovers a problem that requires a quick fallback to an older working version. Please report any irregularities (in particular, core dumps or premature termination from unhandled window events) to me immediately. I have a better chance of fixing them while the source code is still fresh in my mind. [xdvi's source code is 1.4 times bigger than either TeX or Metafont, so working with it is definitely not easy.] Math users can try a quick test of the new features like this: xdvi ~beebe/tex/xdvi/xdvi-22.70+rulers/test/fonttest.dvi xdvi ~beebe/tex/xdvi/xdvi-22.70+rulers/test/fourpix.dvi xdvi ~beebe/tex/xdvi/xdvi-22.70+rulers/test/golf-story.dvi Type v in the xdvi window, or select the View PS button, to toggle viewing of PostScript figures. PostScript viewing is off by default because it can cause long viewing delays (once started, the PostScript interpreter cannot be interrupted from xdvi, which simply waits until the figure is rendered). If you really want it on by default, you can set an X property with xrdb (see the xdvi man pages), or run with the -ps option. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - University of Utah Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB beebe@acm.org beebe@computer.org - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@ieee.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tex-users-errors Tue Jan 28 11:43:32 2003 Return-Path: Received: from suncore.math.utah.edu (IDENT:C47/UfDCnEZ2Px32rts+pUF4jM6JpOyi@suncore0.math.utah.edu [128.110.198.5]) by sunshine.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA03148; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:43:32 -0700 (MST) Received: (from beebe@localhost) by suncore.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA11721; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:43:32 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:43:32 -0700 (MST) From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" To: tex-users@sunshine.math.utah.edu, instructors@sunshine.math.utah.edu Cc: beebe@sunshine.math.utah.edu X-US-Mail: "Center for Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB, University of Utah, 155 S 1400 E RM 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA" X-Telephone: +1 801 581 5254 X-FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 X-URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe Subject: News: LaTeX2e update Message-ID: Over the last day or so, I have updated files in the LaTeX2e tree /usr/local/lib/tex/latex2e/unpacked to match the latest 2e release (2001/06/01). New latex2e.fmt files have been installed on all main servers, but some clients will not see the changes until tomorrow, after the nightly rdist runs. This change SHOULD be transparent: latex2e will report LaTeX2e <2001/06/01> instead of the previous LaTeX2e <2000/06/01> For several years, updates to 2e appeared every six months, but work is now in progress on the design of LaTeX version 3, so the 2e core has been stable since 20-Sep-2001. You can find one-page news files for each release in the files /usr/local/lib/tex/latex2e/doc/ltnews*.dvi Because there are updates in all of the files, it is possible that problems will crop up; please report any anomalies immediately to me. ---------------------------------------- Many packages documented in the three LaTeX Companion volumes are distributed only in archive bundles that have to be unpacked before TeX can find them, so it is possible that you will get a file-not-found error when trying to use a package that you have not used locally before. I have created a procedure to automate the unpacking and installation of these packages, so that all that is required is that the package file name be added to a list of locally-installed packages, and then make can be used to do the job. Please inform me of any that you'd like installed. If you are in a hurry, you can run latex2e on the package .ins file yourself in an empty directory, then copy the created files into a directory that is in your TEXINPUTS search path. Documentation for the packages is in corresponding .dtx files: running latex2e (usually twice) on them after unpacking the .ins file will produce a .dvi file that you can view or print. Be forewarned that this can be a complex procedure if there are dependencies on other packages, or newly-unbundled fonts have to be moved to somewhere Metafont and DVI drivers can find them. Packages can be found in the CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) tree, mirrored daily under the local tree /usr/local/src/ctan/tex-archive and visible via the Internet at ftp://ctan.math.utah.edu/pub/tex-archive http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex-archive The files /usr/local/src/ctan/DIRECTORIES /usr/local/src/ctan/FILES are updated daily with lists of (5600+) directories and (73000+) files in the (5GB+) CTAN archive, making it relatively easy to find a particular file, e.g., locally with % fgrep elsart.cls /usr/local/src/ctan/FILES /usr/local/src/ctan/tex-archive/nonfree/macros/latex/contrib/supported/elsevier/elsart.cls or remotely via FTP with % ncftp ftp://ctan.math.utah.edu/ ncftp / > quote site index elsart.cls /pub/mirrors/ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/nonfree/macros/latex/contrib/supported/elsevier/elsart.cls If that search doesn't turn up the file, you might be able to locate it with the glimpse index of the CONTENTS of the files in the CTAN archive: % glimpse -H /usr/local/src/ctan arc.fd /export/home/0004/ftp/pub/mirrors/ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/fonts/allrunes/allrunes.dtx: \input{arc.fd} /export/home/0004/ftp/pub/mirrors/ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/fonts/allrunes/allrunes.ins: \file{arc.fd}{\from{allrunes.dtx}{arc}} This is MUCH faster than searching the CTAN archive with grep, since on average, only about 1/256 of all of the files need to be searched. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - University of Utah Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB beebe@acm.org beebe@computer.org - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@ieee.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tex-users-errors Wed Feb 19 11:59:23 2003 Return-Path: Received: from suncore.math.utah.edu (IDENT:U5ndScWQyMHREBeAkxTPGRJwEu0yiVmZ@suncore0.math.utah.edu [128.110.198.5]) by sunshine.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA05885; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:59:23 -0700 (MST) Received: (from beebe@localhost) by suncore.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA09044; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:59:23 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:59:23 -0700 (MST) From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" To: tex-users@sunshine.math.utah.edu, sysstaff@sunshine.math.utah.edu Cc: beebe@sunshine.math.utah.edu X-US-Mail: "Center for Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB, University of Utah, 155 S 1400 E RM 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA" X-Telephone: +1 801 581 5254 X-FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 X-URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe Subject: Drawing characters, pictures, and graphs with Metapost Message-ID: I got a pointer this morning to the Web site http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~zoonek/LaTeX/Metapost/metapost.html which has a large sampling of images drawn by Metapost, the PostScript-producing extension of Metafont. Down near the end are several samples of simple line graphs, and scattered throughout are bar charts, tilings, surface meshes, and many other things. All come with the sample code that produces the pictures, and that code is available locally in the CTAN archive in /usr/local/src/ctan/tex-archive/info/metapost/examples or on the net at http://ctan.math.utah.edu/tex-archive/info/metapost/examples/ or http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/metapost/examples/ Some of you may find it useful to learn Metapost for picture production. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - University of Utah Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB beebe@acm.org beebe@computer.org - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@ieee.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tex-users-errors Tue Feb 25 18:35:39 2003 Return-Path: Received: from suncore.math.utah.edu (IDENT:eYg7zc4YYb1cUsxJkTK3wLXN9JDN9Cwc@suncore0.math.utah.edu [128.110.198.5]) by sunshine.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA15065; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 18:35:39 -0700 (MST) Received: (from beebe@localhost) by suncore.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA17606; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 18:35:38 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 18:35:38 -0700 (MST) From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" To: tex-users@sunshine.math.utah.edu Cc: beebe@sunshine.math.utah.edu, sysstaff@sunshine.math.utah.edu, "Brad Hawks" , "Carleton Detar" X-US-Mail: "Center for Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB, University of Utah, 155 S 1400 E RM 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA" X-Telephone: +1 801 581 5254 X-FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 X-URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe Subject: chktex: new LaTeX syntax checker Message-ID: I've just completed installation on all local Math and Physics servers of a new LaTeX syntax checker: chktex. It is accompanied by deweb (a CWeb markup stripper) and chkweb (syntax check CWeb files). All clients should be able to see it by tomorrow morning [type "rehash" in a terminal window to update the list of installed programs]. Like the existing lacheck, chktex attempts to find common typesetting errors in LaTeX files. Manual pages are available for all three programs ("man chktex" etc.). There is a long manual for chktex in the Math machines at /usr/local/src/ctan/tex-archive/obsolete/support/chktex/unix/ChkTeX.dvi and available via the Internet as ftp://ctan.math.utah.edu/tex-archive/obsolete/support/chktex/unix/ChkTeX.dvi http://ctan.math.utah.edu/tex-archive/obsolete/support/chktex/unix/ChkTeX.dvi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - University of Utah Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB beebe@acm.org beebe@computer.org - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@ieee.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tex-users-errors Mon Apr 14 23:12:29 2003 Return-Path: Received: from orthus.cvrti.utah.edu (orthus.cvrti.utah.edu [155.100.140.2]) by sunshine.math.utah.edu (8.9.3p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA14138 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 23:12:29 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from macleod@localhost) by orthus.cvrti.utah.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id XAA161254; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 23:12:28 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 23:12:28 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200304150512.XAA161254@orthus.cvrti.utah.edu> From: Rob MacLeod To: tex-users@sunshine.math.utah.edu Subject: placing logos on the page TeXperts, I am trying to create a cover page for technical reports that we publish from the SCI Institute (www.sci.utah.edu) and need some help placing some elements at fixed locations on this cover page. With some tweaking of an old letter style files I was able to place an eps file with the header information at the top of the page, but am at a loss to know how to place another logo eps file at the bottom. I am not really very knowledgeable in TeX so am basically hacking my way with LaTeX and some bits and pieces stolen from other style or class files. But I figure someone on this list might have an idea how to do this and perhaps even have a template for their own technical reports with some information or graphics in the header and footer. Thanks in advance for any pointers. Cheers, Rob -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rob MacLeod, Ph.D. University of Utah Dept. of Bioengineering, CVRTI, and SCI (www.sci.utah.edu) 95 South 2000 East Room 207 Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-5000 ____ __o Internet: macleod@cvrti.utah.edu ____ -\<, Phonemail: (801)587-9511 ....0/ 0 Fax: (801)581-3128 URL: www.cvrti.utah.edu/~macleod Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tex-users-errors Tue Apr 15 07:47:20 2003 Return-Path: Received: from suncore.math.utah.edu (IDENT:y5laSc8APXPT50pqS145zOKSxZn1Q9U+@suncore.math.utah.edu [128.110.198.5]) by sunshine.math.utah.edu (8.9.3p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA24579; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 07:47:19 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from beebe@localhost) by suncore.math.utah.edu (8.9.3p2/8.9.3) id HAA27110; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 07:47:19 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 07:47:19 -0600 (MDT) From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" To: Rob MacLeod , tex-users@sunshine.math.utah.edu Cc: beebe@sunshine.math.utah.edu X-US-Mail: "Center for Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB, University of Utah, 155 S 1400 E RM 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA" X-Telephone: +1 801 581 5254 X-FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 X-URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe Subject: Re: placing logos on the page In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 14 Apr 2003 23:12:28 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: Rob MacLeod asks on Mon, 14 Apr 2003 23:12:28 -0600 (MDT) about absolute positioning of objects on the page to create a custom cover page for technical reports. The essential problem is that TeX does not provide any simple way to address a particular (x,y) position on the page, at least not until the page is ready to be shipped out to the DVI file. Until then, material is collected on a scrolling galley with no associated absolute page coordinates. When the output routine is called, it examines the main vertical list to figure out where to cut off the scroll to make the current page. In doing this, it has to account for the presence of pending floats, and pending footnotes. The trick then, is to see that a cover page could have a single invisible footnote which always comes out at exactly the same spot on each technical report. The material in that footnote can be zero-sized box that uses LaTeX picture mode to provide convenient positioning of objects. Alternatively, one can put a similar hook into the page header or page footer. Here is an example that hooks into the footnote mechanism; once everything is working to your satisfaction, make a style file that can be invoked with a simple \usepackage{SCIreport} just after the \documentclass{report}. The \makeatletter and \makeatother wrappers can then disappear. % -*-latex-*- % Document name: /tmp/cover.ltx % Creator: Nelson H. F. Beebe [beebe@math.utah.edu] % Creation Date: Tue Apr 15 07:15:38 2003 \documentclass{report} %% Move these definition to a private style file! \makeatletter \let \oldmaketitle = \maketitle \renewcommand{\maketitle}[1] {% {% \let \@makefnmark = \relax \oldmaketitle{#1}% }% } \newcommand{\SCItitle}[1] {% {% \title {% #1% \footnotetext {% \setlength{\unitlength}{0.1in} \begin{picture}(0,0) \put(10,10){\textbf{Object at (10,10)}} \put(40,30){\textbf{Object at (40,30)}} \end{picture} }% }% }% } \makeatother \SCItitle{Sample Technical Report} \author{B. L. Taxpayer} \date{15 April 2003} \begin{document} \maketitle \chapter{The first} Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah. \footnote{First footnote.} Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah. \footnote{Second footnote.} \end{document} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - University of Utah Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB beebe@acm.org beebe@computer.org - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@ieee.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tex-users-errors Tue Apr 22 17:14:22 2003 Return-Path: Received: from suncore.math.utah.edu (IDENT:2nTXnRgjxxsESHw7SleSVUmGfwatzQLJ@suncore.math.utah.edu [128.110.198.5]) by sunshine.math.utah.edu (8.9.3p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA17302; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:14:21 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from beebe@localhost) by suncore.math.utah.edu (8.9.3p2/8.9.3) id RAA12351; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:14:21 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:14:21 -0600 (MDT) From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" To: tex-users@sunshine.math.utah.edu, sysstaff@sunshine.math.utah.edu, "Brad Hawks" , "Carleton Detar" Cc: beebe@sunshine.math.utah.edu, "Frank Harris" , rodgers@sunshine.math.utah.edu, debar@sunshine.math.utah.edu X-US-Mail: "Center for Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB, University of Utah, 155 S 1400 E RM 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA" X-Telephone: +1 801 581 5254 X-FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 X-URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe Subject: Making posters with pdflatex Message-ID: Several people have recently needed to make large posters composited from smaller page images. A posting on the pdftex list today drew my attention to the pdfpages package, which makes it very easy to combine multiple PDF files into a single one. Here is a simple example to give a flavor of what is possible: $ cat big-2x3-poster.ltx % -*-LaTeX-*- \documentclass{article} \setlength{\paperheight}{124cm} \setlength{\paperwidth}{102cm} \usepackage{pdfpages} \begin{document} \includepdfmerge[nup=2x3, landscape, delta=2cm 2cm] {% subpage-1.pdf, 1, subpage-2.pdf, 1, subpage-3.pdf, 1, subpage-4.pdf, 1, subpage-5.pdf, 1, subpage-6.pdf, 1, } \end{document} Each of the subpage-*.pdf files is a one-page image carefully created using outline fonts, so that it can be scaled to a large size without loss of text quality. The argument "1" following each subfile is a page range to select: here, just one page is needed. To make such a poster, you need pdflatex (ordinary latex won't do); its output is a .pdf file, rather than a .dvi file. Here's how: (1) Switch TeX paths from our normal installation tree to the TeXlive tree: tcsh/csh shells: source /usr/local/skel/SYS.texlive.csh sh/ksh/bash shells: . /usr/local/skel/SYS.texlive.sh (2) Run pdflatex: $ pdflatex big-2x3-poster.ltx (3) Optionally, ask for some information about the output file: $ pdfinfo big-2x3-poster.pdf Producer: pdfTeX-1.0-pdfcrypt CreationDate: Tue Apr 22 17:00:00 2003 Tagged: no Pages: 1 Encrypted: no Page size: 2891.34 x 3514.96 pts File size: 7093 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.3 Notice the page size: 2891.34 x 3514.96 (big) pts is 102cm x 124cm, as specified in the .ltx file in the settings of \paperheight and \paperwidth. Their values are interchanged because of the use of the landscape option in the \includepdfmerge command: I chose that orientation since it matches typical conference poster-session practices. Documentation for the pdfpages package can be created and viewed like this: $ mkdir tmp $ cd tmp $ cp /usr/local/src/ctan/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfpages/* . $ pdflatex pdfpages.dtx $ pdflatex pdfpages.dtx $ acroread pdfpages.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - University of Utah Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB beebe@acm.org beebe@computer.org - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@ieee.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tex-users-errors Fri Aug 29 09:56:19 2003 Return-Path: Received: from psi.math.utah.edu (IDENT:JOpv3mQouRv8pgZjzLnN7yOixKzh7IKm@psi.math.utah.edu [128.110.198.32]) by sunshine.math.utah.edu (8.9.3p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA10999 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:56:19 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from beebe@localhost) by psi.math.utah.edu (8.9.3p2/8.9.3) id JAA14176 for tex-users; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:56:19 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:56:19 -0600 (MDT) From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" Resent-Message-Id: <200308291556.JAA14176@psi.math.utah.edu> Received: from psi.math.utah.edu (IDENT:fvG7nZsfpYH7/Qv5Cf5qvzKVDkXVNJlc@psi.math.utah.edu [128.110.198.32]) by sunshine.math.utah.edu (8.9.3p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA10960; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:55:44 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from beebe@localhost) by psi.math.utah.edu (8.9.3p2/8.9.3) id JAA14171; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:55:43 -0600 (MDT) To: tex-fonts@sunshine.math.utah.edu Cc: beebe@sunshine.math.utah.edu, othmer@sunshine.math.utah.edu X-US-Mail: "Center for Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB, University of Utah, 155 S 1400 E RM 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA" X-Telephone: +1 801 581 5254 X-FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 X-URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe Subject: Font scaling: some experiments Message-ID: Resent-To: tex-users@sunshine.math.utah.edu Resent-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 103 9:56:19 MDT Resent-From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" Hans Othmer asked me about the possibility of scaling document fonts by arbitrary amounts in LaTeX documents, so that one could produce text that matches the strict requirements of some granting agencies about the number of characters per inch. This led to some experiments that produced some working style files that let you do something like this in the LaTeX-2e document preamble: \usepackage[scaled=1.1]{times-scaled} \usepackage[scaled=1.045]{helvet} \usepackage[scaled=1.02]{courier-scaled} Unequal scaling of fonts from different families is usually required to get better-looking output. This is still experimental, but appears to work, as long as the associated files are found first in the TEXINPUTS path. Of course, if you use nonstandard font sizes, you also need to adjust \baselineskip and related parameters; that is probably most easily done with \usepackage{doublespace} \setstretch{1.1} where the numeric argument in \setstretch should match that used in the scaled=xxx option to the package for the main text font. I don't plan to install these files in the normal TeX tree, since they would require more documentation and polishing, and extension to other font encodings and font families, and I'm short of time to do so. Nevertheless, if you have need for something like this, you're welcome to make private copies of the directory ~beebe/tex/scaled-fonts so that you can make your own modifications and extensions, or you just use it directly by setenv TEXINPUTS ~beebe/tex/scaled-fonts:$TEXINPUTS It is essential for that directory to precede the system directories, since it has newer versions of certain needed files. The README file in that directory documents the experiments. P.S. The Helvetica package is currently named helvet, not helvet-scaled, simply because it was the only package that already had font scaling in Walter Schmid's PSNFSS package version 9, and it provided the clues needed for my experiments. If I ever develop this further into a consistent package, I would rename the associated Helvetica files to follow the patterns used for Times, Courier, Charter, and Utopia. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - University of Utah Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB beebe@acm.org beebe@computer.org - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@ieee.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - University of Utah Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB beebe@acm.org beebe@computer.org - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@ieee.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------