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Subject: TeXhax Digest V1997 #7
Date: 28 Aug 1997 14:09:42 +0100

TeXhax Digest             Thursday, 28 August 1997      Volume 1997 : Number 007

(incorporating UKTeX Digest)

Today's Topics:

    Re: boxed, multiline formula
    greek packages
    Making (La)TeX beep
    Announcing gsftopk 1.14

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From: "Carlos A. M. Carvalho" <carlos@fisica.ufpr.br>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 14:51:15 -0300
Subject: Re: boxed, multiline formula

Jan Krupa (krupa@alpha.sggw.waw.pl) wrote on 22 July 1997 20:48:
 >Could somebody explain (or only suggest) to me how to get the following 
 >"boxed and displayed formula" (I need it to have in book) or may be 
 >there is some macro (LaTeX2e) which does it or may be somebody could send me
 >some private macro:
 >             _____________________________________________
 >            |                                             |
 >            |                   e.g.: \iint_D xydxdy      |
 >(1)         |        formula 1        \sum....            |
 >            |                          ....               |
 >            |                                             |
 >            |                   e.g.: \lim..              |
 >            |        formula2         ....                |
 >(2)         |                         .....               |
 >            |                                             |
 >            |_____________________________________________|

I use plain, I hope this helps:

\def\boxeq#1{\vcenter{\hrule\hbox{\vrule\vbox{\kern 8 pt
\hbox{$\kern 3,5 pt\displaystyle #1\kern 3,5 pt$}\kern 8 pt}\vrule}\hrule}
}

Usage: $$\boxeq{formula}$$. To get equation numbers you'll have to use
your way. I have my own macros for numbering. It works well for me;
numbers appear outside the box.

If I understand your drawing correctly, you want numbers on the left
and outside of the box. I don't like this. You can use \eqalignno
inside the box, but the box will include the numbers, which is ugly
but logical.

Carlos





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From: mackay@cs.washington.edu (Pierre MacKay)
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 12:06:25 -0700
Subject: greek packages

he Ibycus4 package (the name is a intended as a tribute to David
Packard's Ibycus system, but this package has no connection with
any work done by the Packard Humanities Institute) is available
on osman.classics.washington.edu
[128.95.170.63] in ~ftp/pub/tex, in 4 forms.
 
1. iby4str is a streamed SVR4 (Solaris) package, ready for installation
 
2, iby4str.gz is the same thing gzipped.  There doesn't seem to be any
way to zcat such a file and pipe it into pkgadd.  gunzip has to
be used as a separate operation/
 
3. ibycus4.tar.gz is a SVR4 (Solaris) package in spool directory format
if untarred into the directory /var/spool/pkg it is ready for pkgadd
 
4. ibycus4.zip is for non-Unix sites.  It includes all the genuine files
of Ibycus4 in an 8+3 TDS-conformant style, but not the symbolic links
that make life pleasanter in the Unix world.

There are also 4 similarly organized files of the Silvio Levy's sources
levystr levystr.gz levygrk.tar.gz levygrk.zip  
These contain the unaltered files collected from a CTAN archive in 1994
reorganized into a TDS-conformant package.

Further on Ibycus4

Changes in setwidths have been made, so spacing will be a bit different
(and better, I hope).  Some small improvements in input coding are
made (the 4 distinguishes the new input coding from the old 3 coding).
For other details see the README file.
 
Here is the relevant extract from the README file.  Ibycus3 is what
was previously known as ibygrk.
 
 
        %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
        NOTE: THE FOLLOWING CODINGS ARE NOT COMPATIBLE WITH IBYCUS3
        %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
        I have tried to keep incompatible codings to the minimum
        but the ibycus3 versions of the following were extremely
        undesirable.  These are all simplifications of ibycus3 coding.
        %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
        The mark of elision is ' or {'} (the form in braces may be
        needed to prevent ' from being read as an accent).
        Single quotes may be provided by ` {`} and ' {'}, (isolate them
        in braces if necessary). Double quotes are `` {``} and
        '' {''} (isolate in braces if necessary).  < and > are the
        angle brackets used for conjectural supplements.
        %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 
The prefix in Karl Berry's font-naming scheme is "fib".  The full
naming scheme is provided in the README file.
 
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From: "Darren Hill" <PPXDNH@ppn1.physics.nottingham.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 15:39:49 GMT0BST
Subject: Making (La)TeX beep

Dear all,

A small and seemingly simple question, how does one make (La)TeX
beep (ie exude a BEL control code)? I'm currently writing a special
warning (for a \todo command) that will write to screen what I want
to do, and beep to make sure it gets noticed (in much the same way a
LaTeX error does, but without stopping processing). I can do the
screenwriting, but for the life of me I can't find the code that
makes the think beep anywhere in the source! And if I try the method 
suggested in the TeXbook all I end up doing is writing variations of 
'007 to the screen...

Any help or working code fragments that anyone could provice would be 
gratefully accepted, cos it's driving me nuts!

Cheers in advance

Darren





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From: vojta@math.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta)
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 14:25:12 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Announcing gsftopk 1.14

This is to announce that version 1.14 of gsftopk is available.  gsftopk is
a utility that calls Ghostscript to render PostScript fonts, and then converts
them into pk format.  This allows you to view PostScript fonts in xdvi.

In addition to various bug fixes, this version:

    1..Prints out the version of ghostscript being used along with its own
.version number.

    2..Is ported to Windows 95/NT (courtesy of Fabrice Popineau).

    3..Make some changes to the PostScript environment to accommodate
.dotlessj.pro

    4..Allow psfonts.map lines with several ``specinfo'' strings, such as

.    ptmr8r Times-Roman ".167 SlantFont" "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont"

The upgraded version is available from CTAN in the file:

.tex-archive/fonts/utilities/gsftopk/gsftopk-1.14.tar.gz

Recall that CTAN is one of the following hosts:

.tug2.cs.umb.edu
.ftp.dante.de
.ftp.tex.ac.uk

or one of their numerous mirror sites.

- --Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu





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