UKTeX Digest Friday, 2 Jul 1993 Volume 93 : Issue 22 ``The UKTeX Digest is brought to you as a free, unfunded and voluntary service of the UK TeX Users Group and the UK TeX Archive.'' Today's Topics: {Questions & Answers}: Question about complete citation double superscript problem Re: Game-trees on extensive form HELP Converting LaTeX to Word Perfect etc Merging lists of numbers WYSIWIG Equation Editors Which Can Ouput In TeX. {Archive News}: A few LaTeX style files Re: A few LaTeX style files {Announcements}: TeX Courses at TUG '93 Administrivia: Moderators: Peter Abbott (Aston University) and David Osborne (University of Nottingham) Contributions: UKTeX@uk.ac.tex Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests: UKTeX-request@uk.ac.tex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1993 19:39:11 +0100 From: andy@uk.ac.strathclyde.computer-science Subject: Question about complete citation I would like to be able to \cite{Bloggs} and have the full reference appear in situ - anyone know of a cite style that can do this? It would be useful for preparing reading lists. andy@uk.ac.strath.cs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 09:48:09 +0100 From: Richard Kaye Subject: double superscript problem Please, can anyone help me on this one? I'm in math[s] mode in TeX and want to add a superscript b to \bar a' My first attempt was to try $ {\bar a'}^b $ but TeX complains of a double superscript and effectively substitutes $ {\bar a'}{}^b $ which I don't want. (The b comes out too low.) The problem is not with the ' (replacing the ' with ^c still give a double superscript error) and not that I haven't put in enough { } (adding more of them doesn't stop the error message). The problem is with the accent. It seems that TeX effectively removes { } around any accented subformula. TeX even does this when I try $ {\mathord{\bar a}'}^b $ So how can I get the effect that I want? I can't believe the only method is to go into horizontal mode and then math[s] mode again by $ {\hbox{$\bar a$}'}^b $ (In fact, I suspect that this will put both the ' and the b a little higher than I want anyway.) If I am wrong, and this IS the only way, can someone please explain to me why TeX was designed this way? Thanks, Richard Kaye ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1993 14:59:01 -0400 From: Timothy Van Zandt Subject: Re: Game-trees on extensive form Karsten Strobek wrote: > Dear fellow (La)TeX users, > Does anyone know if there exist a style for LaTeX for priting game-trees on > extensive form (first node open, rest solid, payoff at the last node) ? > I have tried trees.sty, ecltree.sty, but I can't get them to work, especially > if the nodes are not singeltons (they belong to the same information-set). The PSTricks package has some experimental tree macros, which you can get from the UK TeX archive and from Princeton.EDU:/pub/tvz. There is an example of a game tree with non-trivial information sets at the end of the documentation. Sometime this summer PSTricks v0.94 will be available, with the tree macros included. The tree macros will be a little different and even more powerful, but upgrading should not be difficult. The main incompatible change will be that the \psTree macro's syntax will be \psTree \\ \endpsTree Tim Timothy Van Zandt (609)258-4050 tvz@Princeton.EDU (NeXTMail) Dept. of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 ------------------------------ Date: 29 Jun 1993 15:24:06 -0000 From: "Tony Lee, Tel.: (44) (0)252 39 5730" Subject: HELP Converting LaTeX to Word Perfect etc Has anyone any means of converting LaTeX files to Word Perfect (and other MS-DOS or Mac formats) and vice versa? Also, does anyone know how to successfully incorporate EPS files into Archimedes (Risc-OS) LaTeX. Thanks in advance. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1993 16:48:54 +0100 From: Adrian F Clark Subject: Merging lists of numbers There has been an interesting discussion on the literate programming list recently about using module numbers or page numbers. (Basically, module numbers are easier because they can be generated by the WEAVE tool, though page numbers would generally be preferred by most people.) I thought it might be interesting to bring this problem to a rather wider audience. Generating page numbers comes down to the following TeX or LaTeX problem. Given a macro with a set of numeric arguments, as in say \xref{1 2 4 4 6 7 7 7 7 41} (the arguments of which would be generated by \pagerefs) how easy would it be for \xref to generate "See pages 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, and 41." i.e., the macro has to ignore duplicate arguments (which should be already sorted, fortunately) and output "and" before the last number in the list. The actual format of the arguments is fairly flexible, since they'll be machine-generated. Neat LaTeX solutions on the back of a e-postcard, please! ..Adrian Dr Adrian F. Clark JANET: alien@uk.ac.essex INTERNET: alien%uk.ac.essex@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk FAX: (+44) 206-872900 BITNET: alien%uk.ac.essex@ac.uk PHONE: (+44) 206-872432 (direct) Dept ESE, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, C04 3SQ, UK. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1993 12:01:28 -0000 From: Mike Fearn Subject: WYSIWIG Equation Editors Which Can Ouput In TeX. Hi, Does anyone know of software for HP Unix workstations (commerical or otherwise) which will allow a WYSIWIG creation of complex mathematical formulae and then output in TeX/LaTeX format? We have seen a demo of a program called MathEditor running on a Macintosh which does exactly this and would really appreciate getting something similar onto our workstations. Thanks in advance, Mike Fearn Tel : UK (0684) 895371 D.R.A, Malvern, Fax : UK (0684) 896150 Worcs. WR14 3PS Email : hp003@signal.dra.hmg.gb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1993 10:39:12 +0100 From: Adrian F Clark Subject: A few LaTeX style files I've just uploaded a few LaTeX style files for conference proceedings etc to ftp.tex.ac.uk. These are currently in the incoming directory but will, I hope, soon make their way into the archive proper. The style files are: ieeconf.sty -- style file for conferences organized by the UK's Institution of Electrical Engineers (two-column, A4; some minor local modifications may be required). ieeeconf.sty -- style file for conferences organized by the IEEE, which includes the International Conferences on Pattern Recognition and many others (two-column, quarto). rssconf.sty -- style file for the UK's Remote Sensing Society annual conferences (one-column, A4; designed for reduction to A5). (This year's deadline for camera-ready copy is the end of June.) spie.sty -- modified version of the style file for SPIE conference proceedings (one-column, quarto, lots of wasted paper). dates.sty -- latest release of my flexible dates package: lets you re-define \today to any format you like, including the weekday. (Now easily customized to non-English languages.) Dr Adrian F. Clark JANET: alien@uk.ac.essex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1993 11:31:13 +0200 From: Schoepf%de.zib-berlin.sc@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay Subject: Re: A few LaTeX style files Adrian writes: > I've just uploaded a few LaTeX style files for conference proceedings > etc to ftp.tex.ac.uk. These are currently in the incoming directory > but will, I hope, soon make their way into the archive proper. Installed and propagated to other archives. Rainer Schoepf Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin Heilbronner Strasse 10 W-1000 Berlin 31 Federal Republic of Germany or ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 10:48:17 -0000 From: HEWLETT@uk.ac.lse.vax Subject: TeX Courses at TUG '93 TeX Courses at TUG '93 ====================== A number of courses on TeX ranging from introductory to advanced are being given in connection with the Annual General Meeting of the TeX Users Group (TUG), which is being held in Birmingham towards the end of July. If you haven't yet done so, BOOK NOW to avoid disappointment! 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