Subject: TeXhax Digest V90 #40 From: TeXhax Digest Errors-To: TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu Maint-Path: TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu To: TeXhax-Distribution-List:; Reply-To: TeXhax@cs.washington.edu TeXhax Digest Sunday, April 22, 1990 Volume 90 : Issue 40 Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay %%% The TeXhax digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group %%% %%% in cooperation with the UnixTeX distribution service at the %%% %%% University of Washington %%% Today's Topics: BibTeX question Response to BibTeX question Another response to BibTeX question dostex .dvi files on VM/CMS dvi2vcr DVIJEP again dvipage from june.cs.wahington.edu (./tex/dvipage) Tex 3.0 on i386 Xenix 2.3.2 using gcc predefined styles for (La)Tex Re: TeX -> ASCII converter? RE: Gaining control over equation numbers metafont proof and smoke drawings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Apr 90 20:54:25 EDT From: Anand Mehta Subject: BibTeX question Keywords: BibTeX A user (Murad Taqqu, murad@math.bu.edu) send this question. > Bibtex: Is there a program for printing (in the usual citation mode) > all the bibiographic references that exist in a .bib file, without > creating a LaTex file, with a complete list of \nocite. The goal is > to have a way of periodically checking the soundness ( in terms of > contents and format) of a large .bib file typed by a third party. Any answers? Thanks. Anand Mehta amehta@athena.mit.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Apr 1990 8:27:55 PDT From: George D. Greenwade, Bitnet: BED_GDG@SHSU Subject: Response to BibTeX question Keywords: BibTeX Try using the \nocite{*} option under apalike.bst. \documentstyle[fullpage]{article} %use 10pt default and fullpage \begin{document} %to get more on each page \nocite{*} \bibliography{whatever-the-.bbl-file-is-or-is-going-to-be} \bibliographystyle{apalike} \end{document} As usual, the sequence is LaTeX --> BiBTeX --> LaTeX --> LaTeX (certainly, the last LaTeX is superfluous since we are not cross referencing, but we have it automated that way, so.......) This works under the 24-Jan-88 version of apalike, which was adapted from the alpha.bst style, version 0.99a. This is how we generate and maintain rather lengthy bibliographic databases here (some are in excess of 2,500 entries). The main problem we have is identifying specific keys to specific cites. Presently, this is done by hand using the VMS SEARCH command (routine, whatever; some of the more computer literate know the specific terminology). The apalike.bst file is 1101 lines long and is attached. If anyone has an idea how to attach the keys, I would be VERY interested. %%Moderator's note: We have not included the file referred to due to its %%length. For a copy of it please send mail to TeXhax-request@cs. %%washington.edu. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Director Bitnet: BED_GDG@SHSU Center for Business and Economic Research THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG Sam Houston State University Voice: (409) 294-1518 Huntsville, TX 77341-2056 Internet: bed_gdg%shsu.decnet@utadnx.cc.utexas.edu %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 6 Apr 1990 8:27:55 PDT From: Max Hailperin Subject: Another response to BibTeX question Keywords: BibTeX 1) The \nocite{*} trick works with any style, not just apalike, provided only that you are using version 0.99 or later of BibTeX. For example, if the intent is to ultimately use plain, it might make sense to also use plain to dump out the whole bibliography for checking. 2) Alternatively, you may well want to use something like the "cite.bst" BibTeX style I wrote, which also seems to be what Dr. Greenwade is asking for. It is a modified version of plain.bst with four lines modified so that the key is used as the label (rather than consecutive numbers being used). Rather than include the whole of cite.bst below, I'm just including a "context diff" which shows the changes made from plain.bst. *** plain.bst Tue Mar 29 11:06:12 1988 --- cite.bst Mon Oct 17 13:48:57 1988 *************** *** 1,3 **** --- 1,5 ---- + % BibTeX non-standard bibliography style `cite', made by Max Hailperin + % in early August 1988 by making the marked (% -max) changes to: % BibTeX standard bibliography style `plain' % version 0.99a for BibTeX versions 0.99a or later, LaTeX version 2.09. % Copyright (C) 1985, all rights reserved. *************** *** 84,90 **** FUNCTION {output.bibitem} { newline$ ! "\bibitem{" write$ cite$ write$ "}" write$ newline$ --- 86,94 ---- FUNCTION {output.bibitem} { newline$ ! "\bibitem[" write$ % -max (was \bibitem{; next two lines added) ! label write$ ! "]{" write$ cite$ write$ "}" write$ newline$ *************** *** 1061,1067 **** } FUNCTION {longest.label.pass} ! { number.label int.to.str$ 'label := number.label #1 + 'number.label := label width$ longest.label.width > { label 'longest.label := --- 1065,1071 ---- } FUNCTION {longest.label.pass} ! { cite$ 'label := % -max (was number.label int.to.str$ 'label :=) number.label #1 + 'number.label := label width$ longest.label.width > { label 'longest.label := ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Apr 90 11:24:43 ITA From: Paolo Mattiangeli Subject: dostex .dvi files on VM/CMS Keywords: dviware, dostex, VM/CMS Hi TeX people, could anyone please help me resolving a little problem? I received some .DVI files produced with DosTeX and I need to print them. The point is that the printer I have acces to is a IBM3812 on line to the VM/CMS system at my dept. computer center. I tried to submit the files to the DVI to 3820 translator (which works perfectly with DVI files produced within the system), but I only get error messages. Any hint? Thanks a lot. P. ************************************************************ * * * Paolo Mattiangeli * * Universit{ di Roma "La Sapienza" * * Dipartimento di Fisica N.E. * * P.le Aldo Moro, 4 - 00185 Roma Italy * * E-mail: MERCEDES@IRMUNISA.BITNET * * * ************************************************************ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 4 Apr 90 16:39:33 EST From: markus@mso.anu.OZ.AU (Markus Buchhorn -- MSSSO ---) Subject: dvi2vcr Keywords: dviware In TeXhax Digest Volume 90 : Issue 36 Allan Adler asks: > dvi to videotape >I am preparing some videotaped lectures on mathematics and discovering >that graphics are more important and more inconvenient than I had >imagined. Blackboard, oaktag and character generators all have serious >drawbacks which I would like to avoid. Another kludge I will experiment >with is typesetting something with TeX and printing out with a laser >printer onto a transparency, showing the transparency with an overhead >projector and aiming the camera at the image on the wall. This is rather >indirect. I would much prefer to have a way of directly producing the >videotape from the dvi file. Is such a thing possible ? There is one very simple way to go. There is an excellent dvi previewer for Commodore Amigas, (available from Radical Eye Software, contact Tom Rokicki (sp?) rokicki@neon.stanford.edu). With this program you can display/preview dvi files directly on your screen. The Amiga output is standard NTSC (or PAL depending where you are), so one can simply record the output from the computer onto tape. Very quick and elegant. TeX/LaTeX/etc. on the Amiga is a joy to use, and the previewer is great. Disclaimer: I don't work for Radical Eye, but I'm about to become a satisfied customer after seeing a friend's thesis :-), nor do I work for Commodore, but I'm a very satisfied customer of theirs already. Any questions: Email Tom (preferably) or myself (if desperate:-)), or post to comp.sys.amiga. Hope that helps. Cheers, Markus Buchhorn Mt Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, Canberra, Australia markus@mso.anu.oz.au -or-- nssdca::psi%mssso::markus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Apr 90 11:34:35 EDT From: Jim Walker Subject: DVIJEP again Keywords: dviware Followup to my previous inquiries about DVIJEP and HPIID and HPIIP printers: Ken Yap finally clued me in to the fact that the problem wasn't due to the software (my apologies to Nelson Beebe) but due to the fact that I needed to use an 8-bit data path to the printer, with PRINT/PASSALL. Now I can print to an HPIID. As for the HPIIP, it needs a memory upgrade; when that arrives, we'll see. --- James W. Walker, Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina, Columbia SC 29208 BITnet: N410109@univscvm --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 90 19:20:27 EST From: smith%zeus@harvard.harvard.edu (Steven Smith) Subject: dvipage from june.cs.wahington.edu (./tex/dvipage) Keywords: dvipage We have encountered problems with dvipage from june.cs.wahington.edu when it is used with large ( > ~10pp. ) DVI files on Sun 3s. It works fine with all DVI files on Sun 4s and with small files on Sun 3s, but when given a larger file on the latter it crashes rather inelegantly as an example below shows. Does anyone know what the problem and/or solution is? I tried playing around with the variable MAXOPEN, but to no avail. Steven Smith smith@sandalphon.harvard.edu An example: metatron[2]% dvipage report /dev/win0 would not open WIN ioctl number FFFFFFFF: Too many open files WIN ioctl number 40086705: Bad file number . . (More of the same) . WIN ioctl number 40086705: Bad file number no more windows available WIN ioctl number 1C: Bad file number WIN ioctl number 80086701: Bad file number WIN ioctl number 40646729: Bad file number WIN ioctl number 40646729: Bad file number pr_open: open failed for 1 WIN ioctl number 80086701: Bad file number WIN ioctl number 80086701: Bad file number WIN ioctl number 4004670E: Bad file number WIN ioctl number 8008670C: Bad file number /dev/win0 (parent window) would not open window: Subwindow creation failed. /dev/win0 would not open WIN ioctl number FFFFFFFF: Too many open files WIN ioctl number 40086705: Bad file number . . (More of the same) . WIN ioctl number 40646729: Bad file number pr_open: open failed for 1 Segmentation fault metatron[3]% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 90 12:55 PDT From: Kayvan Sylvan Subject: Tex 3.0 on i386 Xenix 2.3.2 using gcc Keywords: TeX, Xenix I have brought up TeX 3.0 and Metafont 2.0 and the related programs on Xenix 2.3.2 using the newly ported gcc 1.37.1. I had to change the main buffer size for both Metafont and TeX to 5000 (up from 3000) in order to be able to generate the plain.base and the plain.fmt files (Perhaps the change files should be fixed?) The generated MF passed the trap test and I'm not sure about the generated TeX. The TeX log had differences having to do with floating point -- things like 12.999999998 instead of 13.0. Should that worry me? Is there a way I can fix it? (glueratio is a double and integer is a long). ---Kayvan | Kayvan Sylvan @ Transact Software, Inc. -*- Los Altos, CA (415) 961-6112 | | Internet: kayvan@{mrspoc.Transact.com, eris.berkeley.edu, largo.ig.com} | | UUCP: ...!{apple,pyramid,bionet,mips}!mrspoc!kayvan "Imagine Cute Saying" | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 7 Apr 90 20:23:54 GMT From: stevep@dgp.toronto.edu (Steve Portigal) Subject: predefined styles for (La)Tex Keywords: LaTeX, TeX, style files I would like to know about "style sheets" in LaTex/Tex (or their functional equivalent). Is there some file that I can just slightly modify with my resume text for example that is easier than starting from scratch? Can anybody fill me in? I have anonymous ftp if there are files that I have to get.... Thanks very much steve stevep@dgp.utoronto.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 6 Apr 90 12:11:11 met From: Rene van Oostrum Subject: Re: TeX -> ASCII converter? Keywords: TeX, ASCII, converter In bit.listserv.tex-l you write: >I remember from not so long ago discussion within these bytes of >programs to produce an ASCII approximation of TeX output. >Does anyone have such a program? Try anonymous ftp to . There is a file "TeX/detex.tar.Z". I'm not very familiar with this material, but it might be what you are looking for. [ Rene ] Rene van Oostrum, Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University Email: rwoostru@praxis.cs.ruu.nl UUCP : ...!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!praxis!rwoostru ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 4 Apr 90 10:11 GMT From: John MacDonald Simmie Subject: RE: Gaining control over equation numbers Keywords: Latex, equation numbers Re: Texhax90.34 The easiest way to gain control of LaTeX equation numbers is not to use them! The numbering scheme of (chapter.number) is not appropiate for all cases, and as well there isn't sufficient flexibility (this also applies to STY files I have seen). For example, in the book layout below (\chem just romanizes math italic) you might want to refer not only to a subequation (3a) but to the reverse equation ($-3$). The TeX construct \eqno() can be mixed in with the LaTeX convention: text text text $$\chem C_2H_6 \rightarrow 2 CH_3 \eqno(3) $$ text text text $$\chem 2 CH_3 \rightarrow C_2H_6 \eqno(-3) $$ text text text \begin{equation} pV=nRT \label{gaslaw} \end{equation} text text text $$\chem C_2H_6 \rightarrow C_2H_4 + H_2 \eqno(3b)$$ text text text Of course, the proper way to do all this is to create a new equation environment via LATEX.TEX ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Apr 90 14:34 PDT From: Subject: metafont proof and smoke drawings Keywords: METAFONT, prof, smoke Greetings; Our system is VAX/VMS with VT240 terminals and LN03R PostScript printers. I have successfully done the experiment No. 4 of the chapter 5 of the METAFONTbook, but was not able to do the first three experiments (in another words, I could not make proof and smoke drawings). Running metafont, then gftodvi, and finally using e.g. dvips for printing as explained in the METAFONTbook did not work. Any help on what the procedure is and what (version of) files I need to make proof and smoke drawings is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. 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