MacOSX-TeX Digest #268 - 03/19/02

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MacOSX-TeX Digest #268 - Tuesday, March 19, 2002

  Help: Geometrical diagrams
          by "Mark William Bannar-Martin" <mbannar-martin at pearson-college.u
  (no subject)
          by "Alistair Windsor" <windsor at math.psu.edu>
  Re: [OS X TeX] Help: Geometrical diagrams
          by "Ross Moore" <ross at ics.mq.edu.au>
  Re: [OS X TeX] Newbie install and font question
          by "William Adams" <wadams at atlis.com>
  Re: [OS X TeX] Newbie install and font question
          by "William Adams" <wadams at atlis.com>
  Re: [OS X TeX] Newbie install and font question
          by "Peter Erwin" <erwin at ll.iac.es>
  OT: Times history (was Re: [OS X TeX] Newbie install and font question)
          by "William Adams" <wadams at atlis.com>
  Re: [OS X TeX] Updated MacDviX and MacGhostViewX
          by "Paulo Abreu" <paulotex at yahoo.com>
  OT: Memoir Latex documentclass sample, _The Confederate Soldier's Pocket 
          by "William Adams" <wadams at atlis.com>
  Re: [OS X TeX] OT: Memoir Latex documentclass sample, _The Confederate So
          by "Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus at mac.com>


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Subject: Help: Geometrical diagrams
From: "Mark William Bannar-Martin" <mbannar-martin at pearson-college.uwc.ca>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:25:31 -0800

I am using TeXShop, which I have just discovered and think very good. I 
wish to write a geometry booklet and do not know the best approach for 
generating diagrams,  geometrical diagrams in particular. I would like 
to maintain the TeX fonts for the labels on the diagrams.

Thank you,
Mark.


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Subject: 
From: "Alistair Windsor" <windsor at math.psu.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:09:20 -0500

At 8:00 PM -0500 3/18/02, TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List wrote:
>On March 18, Tom Kiffe writes:
>>  As mentioned above, MacDviX can have your editor open the source
>>  file and highlight the appropriate line only if you are using BBEdit
>>  or Alpha. This can be extended to other editors which have some
>>  mechanism whereby another program can tell them to open a particular
>>  file and highlight a given line.  Send me email if you want to
>>  implement this feature with a different editor.
>
>With X11 emacs, just unix call
>emacs +n filename
>where n is the line number
>
>With Carbon mac-emacs, just unix call
>tcsh -c '/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs +n filename &'
>Please note that the tcsh, the quotes, and the & are all essential

Both these calls will generate new emacs processes (at least in my 
experience). The usual workaround is to use emacsclient which will 
utilize an existing emacs process. For some reason (probably dark and 
mysterious) the emacsclient will never start an emacs session so 
normally one writes a shell script which checks for a running emacs 
process, utilizes emacsclient if it finds one, and launches one if 
not. Several such shell scripts are available in the current emacs 
distribution (named emacs.tcsh, emacs.bash etc).

Alistair

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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Help: Geometrical diagrams
From: "Ross Moore" <ross at ics.mq.edu.au>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:14:56 +1100 (EST)

> I am using TeXShop, which I have just discovered and think very good. I 
> wish to write a geometry booklet and do not know the best approach for 
> generating diagrams,  geometrical diagrams in particular. I would like 
> to maintain the TeX fonts for the labels on the diagrams.

Xypic is an excellent package for this kind of thing, especially
if you need accurate layouts, with intersections calculated automatically.
Use the  \xygraph  extension, rather than \xymatrix .

If you want a point-and-click type package, relying on your eyes
to judge the location of lines and intersections,
then Adobe Illustrator is probably best.
You can then use Xy-pic and WaRMreader to put labels onto these
Illustrator images.


Hope this helps,

	Ross Moore
 
> Thank you,
> Mark.
> 
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Newbie install and font question
From: "William Adams" <wadams at atlis.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 22:21:35 -0500

pneukom said:
 >Also available are Times, Palatino, Courier,
 >Helvetica, New Century Schoolbook, Avant Garde, Bookman, Zapf Chancery,
 >Symbol, Zapf Dingbats,

The core ``LaserWriter Gang of 35'' are only available by inference (.tfm 
and .map references to them) and impostering ('s that a word? oh well, you 
know what I mean) (URW provided clones of most of them).

 >Bitstream Charter, and Utopis (sic).

That should be ``Utopia''. These fonts are present, having been donated to 
the X-11 Consortium by the respective companies (for Utopia it was Adobe). 
IBM also donated an implementation of Courier, but I'm not sure if it was 
the one provided.

 >*And* various other
 >fonts created more-or-less specifically for use with TeX, such as Euler, 
Omega,
 >and Math Pazo.

Correct.

William

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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Newbie install and font question
From: "William Adams" <wadams at atlis.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:17:37 -0500

My previous mail should've had Peter Erwin <erwin at ll.iac.es> as the source 
for the quoted material---my apologies to Peter and Philip Neukom (pneukom)
  for the confusion.

William

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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Newbie install and font question
From: "Peter Erwin" <erwin at ll.iac.es>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:01:25 +0000

William Adams said:

>>Also available are Times, Palatino, Courier,
>>Helvetica, New Century Schoolbook, Avant Garde, Bookman, Zapf Chancery,
>>Symbol, Zapf Dingbats,
>
>The core ``LaserWriter Gang of 35'' are only available by inference 
>(.tfm and .map references to them) and impostering ('s that a word? 
>oh well, you know what I mean) (URW provided clones of most of them).

Yes, that's correct.  I was referring to the URW clones, for which 
the .pfb files are in
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/fonts/type1/urw/

(Of course, since there are n different PostScript versions of Times 
floating around
out there, I'm not sure whose versions should really be considered "clones"...)

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Subject: OT: Times history (was Re: [OS X TeX] Newbie install and font question)
From: "William Adams" <wadams at atlis.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:41:00 -0500

Peter Erwin (erwin at ll.iac.es) said:
(THIS time I've got the attribution right ;)
 >(Of course, since there are n different PostScript versions of Times 
floating around
 >out there, I'm not sure whose versions should really be considered 
"clones"...)

There was a very nice article detailing the history of the various 
versions of Times and its provenance in the APHA's journal a while 
back---one can see hints of its beginnings in Walter Tracy's wonderful 
book _Letters of Credit_ (digest version: it may have been based on an 
alphabet design by American yacht designer Starling Burgess which Monotype 
had in their archives and Stanley Morison and Victor Lardent ``adapted'' 
for _The Times_ of London when they wanted a new typeface, regardless, 
Linotype did a version here in the US, since Monotype didn't publish it / 
trademark it quickly enough, and rather than have a long drawn-out legal 
battle, all the parties involved agreed to share the design and to never 
speak of the agreement in a gentlemanly fashion---that's why Linotype has 
the trademark ``Times'' while Monotype has ``Times New Roman'')

William

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voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708
www.atlis.com


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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Updated MacDviX and MacGhostViewX
From: "Paulo Abreu" <paulotex at yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 15:53:44 +0000

>Subject: [OS X TeX] Updated MacDviX and MacGhostViewX
>From: "Tom Kiffe" <tom at kiffe.com>

Tom:

I think I never told you how great I think these programs are. Although
in macosx things work a lot with pdf, having a dvi and a ps previewer
around is very important for my work. Thanks a lot!

Paulo

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Subject: OT: Memoir Latex documentclass sample, _The Confederate Soldier's Pocket  Manual of Devotions_
From: "William Adams" <wadams at atlis.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 15:04:42 -0500

I was _very_ impressed by Peter R. Wilson's Memoir class for Latex, when
I found it and felt moved to use it for a personal project as described
below.

While I've seen mention of specific support for ConText here for TeXShop
(which is another thing I really need to find time to look into), AFAIR,
``Memoir'' hasn't shown up. I hope no one will mind my injecting it at
this time and in this way. I'm still learning LaTeX though, so perhaps
no especial support would be necessary in TeXShop?

I've been considering posting this as an announcement to comp.text.tex
with an eye towards getting it on CTAN, but wanted to try out a smaller
group first, so....

Well, it's not sensibly marked up, but it does print reasonably pretty,
so....

I've put this up and made it available at

http://members.aol.com/willadams/tex/tcspmod.tex

It's the LaTeX source, using Peter Wilson's wonderful Memoir class for
_The
Confederate Soldier's Pocket Manual of Devotions_ which I laid out,
printed,
and bound (western-style sewn on tapes with marble end papers) as a
Christmas
gift for my father (he's a member of the Confederate Air Force, and his
grandfather was one of General Robert E. Lee's bodyguards). I set it up
to
print 4-up on legal-sized paper, so the finished size is 4.25 x 7in.

Since it uses Computer Modern, anyone should be able to install the
Memoir
class and then TeX it and print it---hopefully this will address the
complaints regarding the last book which I so shared (see my portfolio
at
http://members.aol.com/willadams)

Although I'd sort of thought of it as a tutorial from the beginning, my
LaTeX
skills weren't up to setting up macros to do proper semantic / logical
markup, but it does demonstrate some of the nifty features of the Memoir

class, and does show a complete book, so maybe someone will find it
interesting.

I think it'd be especially interesting if someone re-worked it using
ConText....

William

P.S. I hope no one is irritated or offended by the subject matter of
this
book. If so, sorry, but my great-grandfather only joined in the Civil
War
when the actions of Union troops threatened his livelihood, and rather
than
having slaves, there were a number of free black sharecroppers who
worked the
land with him, and I learned the measure of a furlong helping the son of
one
of them plough his garden.

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ATLIS Graphics & Design / 717-731-6707 voice / 717-731-6708 fax
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
http://www.atlis.com



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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] OT: Memoir Latex documentclass sample, _The Confederate Soldier's Pocket  Manual of Devotions_
From: "Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus at mac.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 16:48:49 -0500


On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 03:04  PM, William Adams wrote:

> Although I'd sort of thought of it as a tutorial from the beginning, my 
> LaTeX skills weren't up to setting up macros to do proper semantic / 
> logical markup, but it does demonstrate some of the nifty features of 
> the Memoir class, and does show a complete book, so maybe someone will 
> find it interesting.

Thanks for this William.  I've found memoir really useful as well.  As 
someone new to the world of (La)TeX, I find it tremendously useful to 
have examples like this!  Therefore...

> I think it'd be especially interesting if someone re-worked it using
> ConText....

...I'd be thrilled to see this as well (though I may be spreading myself 
thin worrying about ConText too!

Bruce

PS - Yeah, it's a bit weird the confederate thing, but no offense taken.


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