[MiKTeX] Re: MiKTeX-Users digest, Vol 1 #257 - 13 msgs

[Donn Miller-K. <dke...@wi...>]

I am trying to reduce the space in a header in fancyhdr class. I have a two 
line header and it produces different amounts of space each time.  Please help?
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>    1. [newbie] Path problem (Svein E. Seldal)
>    2. Re: Accessing specific fonts with MiKTeX (Proginoskes)
>    3. Yap and PK files (Jesper Thomsen)
>    4. RE: empty lines in TOC (Alex Degtyarev)
>    5. Re: [newbie] Path problem (Philip G. Ratcliffe)
>    6. Re: [newbie] Path problem (Svein E. Seldal)
>    7. RE: Re: [newbie] Path problem (Alex Degtyarev)
>    8. Re: Re: [newbie] Path problem (Philip G. Ratcliffe)
>    9. Re: Re: [newbie] Path problem (Svein E. Seldal)
>   10. Re: Re: [newbie] Path problem (Svein E. Seldal)
>   11. including WMF files (Alan G Isaac)
>   12. Re: including WMF files (Dr Francis J. Wright)
>   13. Re: including WMF files (Arnout Standaert)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 00:50:16 +0100
>From: "Svein E. Seldal" <Sve...@so...>
>To: mik...@li...
>Subject: [MiKTeX] [newbie] Path problem
>Reply-To: mik...@li...
>
>Hi,
>
>Im trying to run pdflatex to generate some nice PDF's. I use my own
>class (.cls) and a lot of custom .sty's (which is site-wide). In
>previous versions of MikTex and on Linux, I define the following
>environment-variable:
>
>TEXINPUTS='.;D:\Prosjekt\Adm\Templates\Include;'
>
>But it doesnt work! (It works perfectly on Linux.) It seems to me that
>pdflatex doesn't check this include directory at all! Does anyone have
>any ideas to fix this problem?
>
>Even if I move the files into my localtexmf hierarchy (and regenerates
>the fndb) it still wont know anything about these files. Even findtexmf
>does not find them unless you explicitly is located in the same
>directory with these files.
>
>I'm running MikTex recently downloaded (2003-02-28).
>
>
>Regards,
>Svein
>
>
>
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>Message: 2
>From: "Proginoskes" <pro...@em...>
>To: <mik...@li...>
>Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] Accessing specific fonts with MiKTeX
>Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 21:12:00 -0700
>Reply-To: mik...@li...
>
>sto...@us... wrote:
> >
> > I can define a font within PCTeX by typing
> >
> >    \font\eightnrr=timenrr at 8pt
> >
> > where timenrr is the lable PCTeX gives to the Times New Roman font.
> > [...] But I don't know how to get MiKTeX to do this.  Anyone have
> > an answer?
>
>You can use the same thing, except that Times New Roman (actually,
>Computer Modern Roman font) is called cmr10. Just use this instead
>of timenrr.
>     -- Christopher Heckman
>
>
>
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>Message: 3
>From: "Jesper Thomsen" <di...@sk...>
>To: "MiKTeX" <mik...@li...>
>Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:23:29 +0100
>Subject: [MiKTeX] Yap and PK files
>Reply-To: mik...@li...
>
>Dear Mailing List,
>
>I have a problem previewing my LaTeX files. Whenever I run Yap on
>a document using the PSGreek fonts, the DVI file only displays
>Latin letters or none at all where the Greek letters should be.
>With PDFTeX the result is as it should be. The fonts are mapped
>in *\dvips\config\config.ps but Yap generates an error message in
>the logbook saying that it cannot find the PK files for the font.
>
>My question is: are the PK files necessary to generate DVI files
>or can they be replaced by something else? The PSGreek package
>comes without any PK files, so what do I do?
>
>Divus
>
>Cuiusvis hominis est errare,
>nullius nisi insipientis in errore persevare.
>
>
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>Message: 4
>From: "Alex Degtyarev" <de...@fe...>
>To: <mik...@li...>
>Subject: RE: [MiKTeX] empty lines in TOC
>Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:40:49 +0200
>Reply-To: mik...@li...
>
> > entry of TOC and my text, even if I enter
> > \addcontentsline{toc}{<division level>}{ } before
> > \addcontentsline{toc}{<division level>}{mytext} . How can I make
> > space in TOC?
>
>For the space question, I would try to put something invisible
>instead of {} .
>Say, \quad or \hbox{} or \vrule height=3D0pt depth=3D0pt width=3D1pt
>For the other one, LaTeX is not suited for smart users: it does
>what's written in the style. You can either switch to plain
>(my strong suggestion) or write directly to .toc from your main
>file. Though, there might also be a "package" for this :)
>
> >
> > =A7=A7 I tried to put \addcontentsline{toc}{<division level>}{mytext}
> > just after command \tableofcontents without editing [*.toc] file,
> > but it did not work (My text comes then not at the end but at the
> > begin of TOC, with comical number "IV").
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Zonghie Han
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>Message: 5
>From: "Philip G. Ratcliffe" <phi...@ti...>
>To: <mik...@li...>
>Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] [newbie] Path problem
>Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:02:55 +0100
>Reply-To: mik...@li...
>
>This is probably not the real solution, as I suspect there is something not
>quite right in your setup, but you might try putting (you'll have to put the
>lines back together again after the mailer has mangled them, or, better
>still, go to your miktex.ini and copy them afresh)
>
>;; -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-
>;; pdfLaTeX
>;; -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-
>
>[pdfLaTeX]
>
>Input
>Dirs=.;%R\pdftex\latex//;%R\pdftex\generic//;%R\pdftex//;%R\tex\latex//;%R\t
>ex\generic//;%R\tex//
>
>in your personal miktex.ini file and adding the paths you want to it.
>
>Cheers,  Phil Ratcliffe
>
>
>
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>Message: 6
>Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:54:14 +0100
>From: "Svein E. Seldal" <Sve...@so...>
>To: mik...@li...
>Subject: [MiKTeX] Re: [newbie] Path problem
>Reply-To: mik...@li...
>
>Philip G. Ratcliffe wrote:
>  > This is probably not the real solution, as I suspect there is
>  > something not quite right in your setup, but you might try putting
>  > (you'll have to put the lines back together again after the mailer
>  >  has mangled them, or, better still, go to your miktex.ini and copy
>  >  them afresh)
>
>
>Thanks. Added the path to miktex.ini works (recursively), but the
>drawback is that it is overwritten each time you upgrade miktex, and the
>manual discourages custom path's in there. But it works.
>
>Back to TEXINPUTS. I have previously used:
>
>TEXINPUTS='.;D:\Prosjekt\Adm\Templates\Include;D:\Prosjekt\Adm\Templates\Include\Imported;'
>
>Which includes the current dir, the include and imported directory and
>the system directories.
>
>Now, if I *only* use
>
>TEXINPUTS='D:\Prosjekt\adm\templates\include'
>
>it works! If I add a single ';' to this environment variable, it will
>fail. (This I'm unable to specify more than one custom dir like this.)
>This would lead me to propose that there is a bug somewhere in the
>parser of the TEXINPUTS variable.
>
>
>Svein
>
>
>
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>Message: 7
>From: "Alex Degtyarev" <de...@fe...>
>To: <mik...@li...>
>Subject: RE: [MiKTeX] Re: [newbie] Path problem
>Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:42:08 +0200
>Reply-To: mik...@li...
>
>I guess with miktex you'd better use a custom ini file.
>Create one (like miktex.ini; keep in mind that there are
>different paths for different formats, like tex & latex)
>and then type
>initexmf -p<path>myfile.ini
>(no spaces, I giess, like
>initexmf -pC:\texmf\miktex\config\myfile.ini
>)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mik...@li...
> > [mailto:mik...@li...]On Behalf Of Svein E.
> > Seldal
> > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 12:54 PM
> > To: mik...@li...
> > Subject: [MiKTeX] Re: [newbie] Path problem
> >
> >
> > Philip G. Ratcliffe wrote:
> >  > This is probably not the real solution, as I suspect there is
> >  > something not quite right in your setup, but you might try putting
> >  > (you'll have to put the lines back together again after the mailer
> >  >  has mangled them, or, better still, go to your miktex.ini and copy
> >  >  them afresh)
> >
> >
> > Thanks. Added the path to miktex.ini works (recursively), but the
> > drawback is that it is overwritten each time you upgrade miktex, and the
> > manual discourages custom path's in there. But it works.
> >
> > Back to TEXINPUTS. I have previously used:
> >
> > TEXINPUTS='.;D:\Prosjekt\Adm\Templates\Include;D:\Prosjekt\Adm\Tem
> > plates\Include\Imported;'
> >
> > Which includes the current dir, the include and imported directory and
> > the system directories.
> >
> > Now, if I *only* use
> >
> > TEXINPUTS='D:\Prosjekt\adm\templates\include'
> >
> > it works! If I add a single ';' to this environment variable, it will
> > fail. (This I'm unable to specify more than one custom dir like this.)
> > This would lead me to propose that there is a bug somewhere in the
> > parser of the TEXINPUTS variable.
> >
> >
> > Svein
> >
> >
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>Message: 8
>From: "Philip G. Ratcliffe" <phi...@ti...>
>To: <mik...@li...>
>Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] Re: [newbie] Path problem
>Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 15:15:34 +0100
>Reply-To: mik...@li...
>
> > Thanks. Added the path to miktex.ini works (recursively), but the
> > drawback is that it is overwritten each time you upgrade miktex, and
> > the manual discourages custom path's in there. But it works.
>
>Glad to have been of help.  However, maybe I wasn't clear enough: you should
>create your own miktex.ini in the localtxmf tree, you should only include
>the lines that need to override the main one.  Then you need to issue the
>following (all on one DOS command line):
>
>"C:\TeX\texmf\miktex\bin\initexmf.exe" --verbose --personal=C:\TeX\localtexm
>f\miktex\config\miktex.ini
>
>The exact paths in the above will, of course, depend on your set-up.
>
>This can be used to override any of the standard settings in a permanent
>manner that will NOT get overwritten by upgrades.
>
>Cheers,  Phil Ratcliffe
>
>P.S.  By way of example, here's my local miktex.ini (if you can see though
>the choppped up lines):
>
>;; -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-
>;; BibTeX
>;; -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-
>
>[BibTeX]
>
>;; Minimum number of cross-refs required for automatic cite_list inclusion.
>min_crossrefs=99
>
>;; -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-
>;; TeX
>;; -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-
>
>[TeX]
>
>Editor="C:\Program Files\WinEdt Team\WinEdt\WinEdt"
>"[Open('%f');SelLine(%l,7)]"
>
>
>
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>
>Message: 9
>Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:08:42 +0100
>From: "Svein E. Seldal" <Sve...@so...>
>To: mik...@li...
>Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] Re: [newbie] Path problem
>Reply-To: mik...@li...
>
>Philip G. Ratcliffe wrote:
> > "C:\TeX\texmf\miktex\bin\initexmf.exe" --verbose 
> --personal=C:\TeX\localtexm
> > f\miktex\config\miktex.ini
> >
>Thanks. My troubles are now history!
>
>Just out of curiousity: Is there a similar elegant method of adding
>local directory on linux (redhat)? Is the initexmf app on linux or is
>this miktex specific? I prefer altering configuration files over
>cluttering with environment variables... So it would be very nice to do
>the same on Linux as well.
>
>
>Regards,
>Svein
>
>
>
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>
>Message: 10
>Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:35:22 +0100
>From: "Svein E. Seldal" <Sve...@so...>
>To: mik...@li...
>Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] Re: [newbie] Path problem
>Reply-To: mik...@li...
>
>Svein E. Seldal wrote:
> > Philip G. Ratcliffe wrote:
> >
> >> "C:\TeX\texmf\miktex\bin\initexmf.exe" --verbose
> >> --personal=C:\TeX\localtexm
> >> f\miktex\config\miktex.ini
> >>
> > Thanks. My troubles are now history!
>
>Well, I thought I had it:
>
>My local config file contains this:
>
>[LaTeX]
>Input
>Dirs=D:\Prosjekt\Adm\Templates\Include;D:\Prosjekt\Adm\Templates\Include\Imported
>
>And I run the initexmf as stated above. A initexmf --report reveals:
>
>LaTeX Path:
>    D:\Prosjekt\Adm\Templates\Include
>    D:\Prosjekt\Adm\Templates\Include\Imported
>
>I.e. the system's paths have vanished -- my line have overridden the
>systems paths. Using ";" prior the the line, nor %R works.
>
>Do I really need to copy the entire line from the system's miktex.ini,
>or there another way to do it?
>
>
>Svein
>
>
>
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>
>Message: 11
>Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:57:07 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
>From: Alan G Isaac <ai...@am...>
>To: miktex-users <mik...@li...>
>organization:  American University
>Subject: [MiKTeX] including WMF files
>Reply-To: mik...@li...
>
>Since I did not get an answer to this question on this list,
>I thought I shd post the solution.  Of course I'll add a
>new question or two.   ;-)
>
>One can include WMF files an view them with Yap.
>It is in the Yap user's guide:
>   http://tex.imm.uran.ru/texserver/graph/yap.html#SEC12
>In your preamble you need:
>\usepackage{graphicx}
>\DeclareGraphicsRule{.wmf}{bmp}{}{}% declare WMF filename extension
>
>Note crucially that the 3rd argument is empty!
>Now here is the second crucial thing, which I do not fully
>understand.  Consider the following command:
>\includegraphics[width=2in,height=1in]{drawing.wmf}
>This will succeed, but only because *both* height and
>width have been specified.
>
>Question 1:
>Coming from the world of EPS files, I find this puzzling
>(and not desirable either).  With an EPS file you can
>specify the width and the height will be computed from the
>bounding box info.  Why is this not true with WMF files?
>
>Now someone might say, well you should say
>\DeclareGraphicsRule{.wmf}{bmp}{.wmf}{}
>since WMF files contain bounding box info.
>One would think, but MikTeX chokes on this!
>It claims it cannot find bounding box info in
>the WMF file.
>
>Question 2:
>I am a big fan of dvipdfm.  So now I've finally found out
>how to include WMF files so that they view in Yap.  But
>now I discover that dvipdfm does not like them, nor does
>dvips.  So to get to PDF, am I going to have to convert
>the WMF files after all?  (I know about wmf2eps.)
>
>Of course none of this would be an issue if my applications
>all did the sensible thing an allowed EPS export.  But for
>reasons I've never fully understood the Windows world still
>does not quite grasp the desirability of this.
>
>Thanks,
>Alan Isaac
>
>
>
>
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>
>Message: 12
>From: "Dr Francis J. Wright" <F.J...@qm...>
>To: <mik...@li...>
>Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] including WMF files
>Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:09:43 -0000
>Organization: Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London
>Reply-To: mik...@li...
>
>From: "Alan G Isaac" <ai...@am...>
>To: "miktex-users" <mik...@li...>
>Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 4:57 PM
>Subject: [MiKTeX] including WMF files
>
>
> > Of course none of this would be an issue if my applications
> > all did the sensible thing an allowed EPS export.  But for
> > reasons I've never fully understood the Windows world still
> > does not quite grasp the desirability of this.
>
>Just print to file using a PS printer driver -- ideally one such as one of
>the free Adobe drivers that have an eps output mode.  That way you can get
>eps export from any Windows application that can produce printed output.
>
>Francis
>
>
>
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>
>Message: 13
>Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 20:00:15 +0100
>From: Arnout Standaert <arn...@st...>
>To: mik...@li...
>Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] including WMF files
>Reply-To: mik...@li...
>
>Alan G Isaac wrote:
>
> ><snip>
> >Of course none of this would be an issue if my applications
> >all did the sensible thing an allowed EPS export.  But for
> >reasons I've never fully understood the Windows world still
> >does not quite grasp the desirability of this.
> >
> >
>Have you already considered WMF2EPS? Essentially, this uses the same
>principle of a printer driver that prints to EPS, but it is optimized in
>several ways to produces conformant EPS. Find it at:
>
><http://www.wmf2eps.de.vu>
>
>Regards,
>Wald
>
>
>
>
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