Re: (OT) LaTeX vs Word vs OOo (was: (OT) gnash vs. flash)

2010-03-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2010-03-18 17:21:26 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:24:12 +0100 Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.org wrote: This is fine as long as you don't publish articles via commercial publishers. The IEEE Computer Society now uses Microsoft Word, and the files they produce are not

Re: (OT) LaTeX vs Word vs OOo (was: (OT) gnash vs. flash)

2010-03-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:24:12 +0100 Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.org wrote: On 2010-03-18 10:19:07 +0200, Micha wrote: Personally though I use lyx for anything I can get away with. Luckily in university mathematics no one knows word. Almost everyone apart for a few students that haven't

Re: (OT) LaTeX vs Word vs OOo

2010-03-18 Thread John Hasler
Vincent writes: [Latex] is fine as long as you don't publish articles via commercial publishers. I think that you will find that the math journals can deal with it. Some may even require it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-12-08 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:12:38 -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: I'd like to begin writing my coursework for college in LaTeX, but I've no clue where to start. . . LaTeX is not recommended for casual writing. The learning curve is so steep that most people would give up before they see the beauty of

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-12-08 Thread John Miller
I had to work on a LaTeX/Perl project a couple of months ago, but didn't know much about it. These got me up to speed well enough: The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf LaTeX Tutorials: A Primer

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-29 Thread Samuel Bächler
Ctan.org recommends http://ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/ as a document to start with. Cheers Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 01:39:39PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 12:47:02PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: I installed vim-latexsuite which installed vim-addon-manager. Then I entered 'vim-addons install latex-suite' to enable it. Now when I enter 'vim-addons show' I get:

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-28 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 11:12:38AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: Hello DU I'd like to begin writing my coursework for college in LaTeX, but I've no clue where to start. I began by installing the vim-latexsuite package, but that didn't seem to really work too well (The help pages are both

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-27 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Marsh wrote: On Nov 27, 2007 1:37 AM, Sarunas Burdulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'pdflatex latexfile' will produce latexfile.pdf. Alternatively, use dvips (dvi-postscript) and then ps2pdf. One advantage of using pdflatex, rather than

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-27 Thread H.S.
Sarunas Burdulis wrote: Michael Marsh wrote: On Nov 27, 2007 1:37 AM, Sarunas Burdulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'pdflatex latexfile' will produce latexfile.pdf. Alternatively, use dvips (dvi-postscript) and then ps2pdf. One advantage of using pdflatex, rather than dvips+ps2pdf or dvipdf, is

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael Pobega wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello DU I'd like to begin writing my coursework for college in LaTeX, but I've no clue where to start. I began by installing the vim-latexsuite package, but that didn't seem to really work too well (The help pages are both

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 01:42:37PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: So far I've used the latex file command to compile a .dvi file for viewing; What's the best way to process a .tex file into a .pdf? I don't know if this is the best, but I found the option -output-format to latex. You can

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-26 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 01:42:37PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: So far I've used the latex file command to compile a .dvi file for viewing; What's the best way to process a .tex file into a .pdf? I don't know if this is the best, but I found the option -output-format

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-26 Thread Michael Marsh
On Nov 27, 2007 1:37 AM, Sarunas Burdulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'pdflatex latexfile' will produce latexfile.pdf. Alternatively, use dvips (dvi-postscript) and then ps2pdf. One advantage of using pdflatex, rather than dvips+ps2pdf or dvipdf, is that you can add \usepackage{hyperref} to your

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Michael Marsh
On Nov 25, 2007 4:12 PM, Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to begin writing my coursework for college in LaTeX, but I've no clue where to start. I began by installing the vim-latexsuite package, but that didn't seem to really work too well (The help pages are both missing), and

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 11:12:38AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: Hello DU I'd like to begin writing my coursework for college in LaTeX, but I've no clue where to start. I began by installing the vim-latexsuite package, but that didn't seem to really work too well (The help pages are both

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Benjamin M. A'Lee
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 11:12:38AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: Hello DU I'd like to begin writing my coursework for college in LaTeX, but I've no clue where to start. I began by installing the vim-latexsuite package, but that didn't seem to really work too well (The help pages are both

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, `lshort.pdf' is very good starting point to learn LaTeX. Good LaTeXing, Jerome Michael Marsh wrote: On Nov 25, 2007 4:12 PM, Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to begin writing my coursework for college in LaTeX, but I've no clue where to start. I began by installing the

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Rick Pasotto
I installed vim-latexsuite which installed vim-addon-manager. Then I entered 'vim-addons install latex-suite' to enable it. Now when I enter 'vim-addons show' I get: Addon: latex-suite Status: broken Description: comprehensive set of tools to view, edit, and compile LaTeX documents What is it

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
As others have said, the not-so-short guide it good. If you want something short and quick, there's plenty on the net such as: http://polishlinux.org/tex/latex-the-basics-part-i/ http://www.electronics.oulu.fi/latex/index.html I usually process it with pdftex and view with a pdf viewer. -- swk

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 12:47:02PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: I installed vim-latexsuite which installed vim-addon-manager. Then I entered 'vim-addons install latex-suite' to enable it. Now when I enter 'vim-addons show' I get: Addon:

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 11:25:14AM -0700, Robert Jerrard wrote: On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 11:12 -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: I'd like to begin writing my coursework for college in LaTeX, but I've no clue where to start. I began by installing the

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 01:42:37PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: So far I've used the latex file command to compile a .dvi file for viewing; What's the best way to process a .tex file into a .pdf? At least two ways: latex to make a dvi (device independant format) dvipdf to turn it

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Benjamin M. A'Lee
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 01:42:37PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: So far I've used the latex file command to compile a .dvi file for viewing; What's the best way to process a .tex file into a .pdf? You can either run dvipdf on the dvi file, or pdflatex on the tex file. IIRC there's some

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/07 12:42, Michael Pobega wrote: [snip] Thus far all I know is LaTeX is some sort of a graphical language (Ala HTML) for text and image control to create documents. Officially, tex is a typesetting system. But yes, tex *is* a markup

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 01:39:39PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 12:47:02PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: I installed vim-latexsuite which installed vim-addon-manager. Then I entered 'vim-addons install latex-suite' to enable it. Now when I enter 'vim-addons show' I get:

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Robert Jerrard
On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 11:12 -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: I'd like to begin writing my coursework for college in LaTeX, but I've no clue where to start. I began by installing the vim-latexsuite package, but that didn't seem to really work too well (The help pages are both missing), and I have

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:12:38 -0500 Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello DU I'd like to begin writing my coursework for college in LaTeX, but I've no clue where to start. I began by installing the vim-latexsuite package, but that

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hi there, I would recommend a small nifty utility called rubber. It is simply a front end for the most common latex compile commands. Thus, if you want to compile your latex file into pdf simply run rubber --pdf filename.tex It takes care of everything. It is available in the debian

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Robert Jerrard
On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 13:42 -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: So far I've used the latex file command to compile a .dvi file for viewing; What's the best way to process a .tex file into a .pdf? I typically run the commands dvips file.dvi -o ps2pdf file.ps once the dvi file has been created. The

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Manu Hack
On Nov 25, 2007 1:39 PM, Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 12:47:02PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: I installed vim-latexsuite which installed vim-addon-manager. Then I entered 'vim-addons install latex-suite' to

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 01:53:00PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hi there, I would recommend a small nifty utility called rubber. It is simply a front end for the most common latex compile commands. Thus, if you want to compile your latex

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:03:15 -0500 Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 01:53:00PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hi there, I would recommend a small nifty utility called rubber. It is simply a front end for

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:53:41AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Kent West wrote: (Off-Topic because this is really a LaTeX question rather than a Debian question.) Not an offtopic question. You are using Debian, so this is relevant IMHO. Great, I have a bad case of flatulence.

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-17 Thread Kent West
Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:53:41AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Kent West wrote: (Off-Topic because this is really a LaTeX question rather than a Debian question.) Not an offtopic question. You are using Debian, so this is relevant IMHO.

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 22:23:48 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:53:41AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Kent West wrote: (Off-Topic because this is really a LaTeX question rather than a Debian question.) Not an offtopic question. You are using

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kent West: What I'm concerned about is the chord names (A, D, etc) need to line up with the word where the chords change, which means exact placement will be necessary. I currently do this in OO.o with a monospace font and manually spacing over to where the chord name goes. I am sure this

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Kent West wrote: (Off-Topic because this is really a LaTeX question rather than a Debian question.) Verse 1 A I wanna make you smile Bm Whenever you're sad C#m Carry you around D When your arthritis is bad A E All I wanna do is D

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Kent West
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Kent West wrote: What I'm concerned about is the chord names (A, D, etc) need to line up with the word where the chords change, which means exact placement will be necessary. ---LaTeX-File--- \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} \newlength{\chordlength}

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Kent West wrote: (Off-Topic because this is really a LaTeX question rather than a Debian question.) Not an offtopic question. You are using Debian, so this is relevant IMHO. I've been using OpenOffice.org to produce paper copies of songs written for guitar, but with all the talk about

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:12:55 -0600, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: (Off-Topic because this is really a LaTeX question rather than a Debian question.) I've been using OpenOffice.org to produce paper copies of songs written for guitar, but with all the talk about LaTeX on this list

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kent West wrote: (Off-Topic because this is really a LaTeX question rather than a Debian question.) I've been using OpenOffice.org to produce paper copies of songs written for guitar, but with all the talk about LaTeX on this list lately, I got to wondering if it might be a better product.

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Kent West
Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:12:55 -0600, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The material looks like standard guitar tabs you'd find on the web, like this, from http://www.guitaretab.com/a/adam-sandler/211.html: Package: musixtex Description: Typeset music scores with

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Hi, havnt been following this thread, just jumping in. This link has some samples of musixtex that you could perhaps use to get yourself familiar with it. Else use something like noteedit to edit your music and if you want, then you can export your music to musixtex. HTH Oli Þann 2007-02-15,

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kent West: Looks promising, but the learning curve appears to be a right-angle. From page 2 of the manual: If you are not familiar with TEX at all I would recommend to find another software package to do musical typesetting. Setting up TEX and MusiXTEX on your machine and mastering it is

Re: [OT] LaTeX: KOMA-Script Problem

2004-07-25 Thread Christoph Bersch
Gerald Holl wrote: Ich habe ein Problem mit dem Koma-Script unter sarge. Die Ränder bzw. Abstände oben und unten auf der Seite sind [1]sehr groß, besonders der untere. Ich habe testweise auch mal den DIV-Faktor verändert, aber ohne besondere Verbesserung. Um wie viel hast du denn den

Re: [OT] LaTeX: KOMA-Script Problem

2004-07-25 Thread Andreas L.
Am Sonntag, 25. Juli 2004 16:21 schrieb Gerald Holl: Was mache ich falsch? du hast nicht den scrguide.pdf gelesen, hier insbesondere Kapitel 2 Satzspiegelkonstruktion, dann kann ich Dir auch noch http://people.freenet.de/kohm/markus/komasatzspiegel.pdf ans Herz legen. Denn soweit ich weiß

Re: [OT] LaTeX: KOMA-Script Problem

2004-07-25 Thread Kai Weber
* Christoph Bersch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 3 \usepackage[german]{babel} ^^ nicht lieber 'ngerman'? babel ist nur bei mehrsprachigen Dokumenten notwendig. Für einfach deutschsprachige Texte genügt auch das Paket ngerman respektive german. \usepackage{ngerman} -- Kai Weber »

Re: [OT] Latex Q - page number appears on pg 1 with empty pagestyle

2003-12-18 Thread Le Hoang Anh
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:03:25AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: I am writing a document with latex using the article document class. The problem is that when setting \pagestyle{empty} either in the preamble or after the \begin{document} I still get a page number on the first page. Since there

Re: [OT] Latex Q - page number appears on pg 1 with empty pagestyle

2003-12-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:03:25AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: | I am writing a document with latex using the article document | class. The problem is that when setting \pagestyle{empty} either in | the preamble or after the \begin{document} I still get a page number on | the first page. Odd,

Re: OT: LaTeX problem w/ upside-down slides

2003-01-07 Thread Hubert Chan
Andrew == Andrew Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew (I apologize for the off-topic post but I know there are LaTeX Andrew users around and this is a bit of an emergency.) Andrew Help! I haven't used the seminar package for a year or so; now, Andrew when creating the slides for a class

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

2002-12-02 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, J?rg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody For my documents, I have to use both LaTeX and pdfLaTeX. The problem I have is, pdflatex does not (at least per default) understand .eps and .ps files. So I have to convert my .eps figures from gnuplot into .png for pdflatex in

Re: [Fwd: Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats]

2002-11-29 Thread Jörg Johannes
Hello Jerome the LaTeX package `epstopdf' allows to convert PostScript files on the fly: you should find it at your favorite CTAN site in the folder: CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberliek or somethinh lik that. This looks very promising, I have to check it out. But wait... this

Re: [Fwd: Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats]

2002-11-29 Thread Jerome BENOIT
I am very sorry for the misspelling, so let me try again: you can find the `epstopdf.sty' LaTeX STY file in the drectory `/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/oberdiek' Bye, Jerome Jörg Johannes wrote: Hello Jerome the LaTeX package `epstopdf' allows to convert PostScript files on the fly: you should

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

2002-11-28 Thread Dominique Dumont
Jörg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi everybody For my documents, I have to use both LaTeX and pdfLaTeX. The problem I have is, pdflatex does not (at least per default) understand .eps and .ps files. So I have to convert my .eps figures from gnuplot into .png for pdflatex in order to

[Fwd: Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats]

2002-11-28 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Original Message Subject: Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:03:55 +0200 From: Jerome BENOIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dominique Dumont [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dominique

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

2002-11-26 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:42:35PM +0100, Jörg Johannes wrote: For my documents, I have to use both LaTeX and pdfLaTeX. The problem I have is, pdflatex does not (at least per default) understand .eps and .ps files. So I have to convert my .eps figures from gnuplot into .png for pdflatex in

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

2002-11-26 Thread Gary Turner
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:42:35 +0100, Jörg Johannes wrote: Hi everybody For my documents, I have to use both LaTeX and pdfLaTeX. The problem I have is, pdflatex does not (at least per default) understand .eps and .ps files. So I have to convert my .eps figures from gnuplot into .png for

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

2002-11-26 Thread Jörg Johannes
Hello Johann I'm not sure if we understand each other. I'll ask you what is unclear in comments below: Johann Spies schrieb: \newif\ifpdf \ifx\pdfoutput\undefined \pdffalse \documentclass[dvips,12pt,a4paper]{article} \else \pdfoutput=1 \let\special\message \pdftrue

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

2002-11-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 26/11/02 J?rg Johannes did speaketh: Hi everybody For my documents, I have to use both LaTeX and pdfLaTeX. The problem I have is, pdflatex does not (at least per default) understand .eps and .ps files. So I have to convert my .eps figures from gnuplot into .png for pdflatex in order

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

2002-11-26 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:31:47PM +0100, Jörg Johannes wrote: Hello Johann I'm not sure if we understand each other. I'll ask you what is unclear in comments below: Johann Spies schrieb: \newif\ifpdf \ifx\pdfoutput\undefined \pdffalse \documentclass[dvips,12pt,a4paper]{article}

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

2002-11-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jörg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For my documents, I have to use both LaTeX and pdfLaTeX. Me too. The problem I have is, pdflatex does not (at least per default) understand .eps and .ps files. So I have to convert my .eps figures from gnuplot into

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

2002-11-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi {pdf,}LaTeX Fans ! There is a package written by Oberdiek which does the job: `epstopdf' Read the comments before to use it. Otherwise, I guess that this list is not the proper one for pure TeX issue. I hope that helps, Jerome Jörg Johannes wrote: Hi everybody For my documents, I have

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

2002-11-26 Thread Stefan Janecek
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 13:42, Jörg Johannes wrote: Hi everybody For my documents, I have to use both LaTeX and pdfLaTeX. The problem I have is, pdflatex does not (at least per default) understand .eps and .ps files. So I have to convert my .eps figures from gnuplot into .png for pdflatex

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

2002-11-26 Thread Jörg Johannes
Hi Stefan I really like the makefile approach, but I will have to read the make-nutshell book before I understand what the snipped you gave me really does... Thanks anyway. joerg snip I would use a Makefile like -[snip!]--- FROM = $(subst .eps,.pdf,

Re: [OT] LaTeX and Zapf Chancery fonts

2001-11-22 Thread joel_mayes
on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 10:01:53PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can some one please send my an example on how to specify the pzc or the uzc fonts in a default Debian teTeX install, I can't figure it out and it's driving my Mad.

Re: [OT] LaTeX and Zapf Chancery fonts

2001-11-21 Thread Alan Shutko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can some one please send my an example on how to specify the pzc or the uzc fonts in a default Debian teTeX install, I can't figure it out and it's driving my Mad. \fontfamily{pzc}\fontshape{it}\selectfont test -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of

Re: [OT] LaTeX and \input{file}

2001-06-12 Thread Thomas Halahan
or use \usepackage{verbatim} ... \verbatiminput{filename.txt} this package also provides the comment environment which is good for big comment blocks. tom

Re: [OT] LaTeX and \input{file}

2001-06-07 Thread ANDREW PERRIN
You could see if the fancyvrb package on CTAN helps with this - it's an interesting catch-22 since the verbatim environment doesn't allow for any includes. I suppose a quick fix would be to add \begin{verbatim} and \end{verbatim} lines to the file being included, but that pollutes your original

Re: [OT] LaTeX and \input{file}

2001-06-07 Thread Brian May
Johannes == Johannes Jörg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Johannes I need to input a file as raw text (every linbreak must Johannes be a linebreak, there are some backslashes in it etc.) Johannes I tried \input[verbatim]{file}, but this does not what I Johannes want it to (It gives an

Re: [OT?] LaTeX fonts in X?

2001-05-30 Thread David Z. Maze
Joerg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JJ Aren't the LaTeX fonts scalable post-script fonts? Not generally; they use a meta-language called METAFONT, which includes much more information than PostScript fonts use. (For example, 5-point Computer Modern scaled to 20 points looks much different