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From: Brian E. <be...@me...> - 2003-02-19 11:46:28
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Dear Jan, you should perhaps google a little more. "metapost labels" as search key for google groups gives 511 hits. Your problem is the same as Nicolas's. When you have finished your figure in metapost, run it one more time but without prologues. Then include it in a latex file, run tex and dvips and you will have the fonts as wanted. (The long answer can be found in several of the google posts.) Brian Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: > I've got a question about this -- maybe someone could explain to me, what > "prologues" is all about. (Including some ps-headers???) > > I few month ago when I started using MetaPost, I could not get any labels, > neither in Yap, in Ghostview (gv on Unix), or at the postscript printer. > After searching a few hours, I found a five year old posting suggesting > "prologues:=1;" and installing some further fonts. (I did not install any- > thing, though.) > > For me label work if -- and only if (!) -- I include "prologues:=1;", and > in that case I'm able to view them anywhere. This applies to MiKTeX and > some TeX installation on Solaris. > > The "only" problem I haven't really solved is some letters missing. > IIRC, "btex I etex" did not work, but "btex J etex". Simply "I" worked, > too, but of course with the wrong font. (I've been living with that...) > > Maybe someone can give some insight. > > Thanks, > Jan Henrik Sylvester > > >>-----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- >>Von: mik...@li... >>[mailto:mik...@li...]Im Auftrag von Nicolas >>Anzalone >>Gesendet: Mittwoch, 19. Februar 2003 02:23 >>An: mik...@li... >>Betreff: Re: [MiKTeX] Newbie: MetaPost label font >> >> >>Thanks for that very helpful tip - the figures look just fine in a ps file >>if I do a dvips. So I now have something I can work with. (BTW - I >>mistyped my code in my email, so the curly brackets were not the >>problem}. >>I may be pushing my luck here, but... does anyone know exactly why this is >>happening? Or know of some doc that I could read? Have other people had >>this difficulty? Not that a dvi version is critical, but I like to know >>these things :) >> >>My [limited] understanding of the way these pieces all fit together >>suggests that the MetaPost labels are embedded somehow into the resulting >>eps file in such a way that LaTeX typesets them when the figures are >>included. So I am surprised that they don't appear in the dvi. Is there >>another way to include them such that they will appear in the dvi output >>file as well? Or perhaps the labels are not actually processed by LaTeX, >>but by the viewer itself. In that case maybe YAP is not equipped with the >>proper tools to resolve the embedded labels but gsview is and that is why >>dvips resolves the problem? But I can't view the figs with gsview before >>I use LaTeX, so that doesn't quite fit. Maybe it is just something that is >>by nature native to ps? Except that when I use ps2pdf to create a pdf >>file, I don't have any problems viewing the figures either. >> >>In any event, thanks to both Walter and Brian for taking the time to help >>me get over that particular hurdle. >> >>Nicolas >> >>On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, walter a kehowski wrote: >> >> >>>I use metapost regularly and finally came across the following to get >>>everything working properly. >>> >>>metapost preamble: >>> >>>verbatimtex >>>%&latex >>>\documentclass{article} >>>\usepackage{amsmath} >>>\usepackage{amssymb,latexsym} >>>\begin{document} >>>etex; >>> >>>prologues:=0; >>> >>>Keep in mind that you have 'verbatixtex' in your posting and a >> >>brace where >> >>>there should be a parenthesis in your draw statement -- is that >> >>the problem? >> >>>Once the file has been processed through metapost, run it through latex, >>>then dvips, and then gsview. You should be able to see your >> >>graphic in the >> >>>resulting postscript file. I never use dvi to view a metapost graphic. >>> >>>The whole sequence should be something like >>> >>>mp.exe file.mp >>>latex.exe file.tex >>>dvips.exe -q -Ppdf -z file.dvi >>>gsview32c.exe /E file.ps >>> >>>HTH, >>> >>>Walter Kehowski >>>wke...@co... >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>------------------------------------------------------- >>>This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek >>>Welcome to geek heaven. >>>http://thinkgeek.com/sf >>>_______________________________________________ >>>MiKTeX-Users mailing list >>>MiK...@li... >>>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/miktex-users >>> >> >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------- >>This SF.net email is sponsored by: SlickEdit Inc. Develop an edge. >>The most comprehensive and flexible code editor you can use. >>Code faster. C/C++, C#, Java, HTML, XML, many more. FREE 30-Day Trial. >>www.slickedit.com/sourceforge >>_______________________________________________ >>MiKTeX-Users mailing list >>MiK...@li... >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/miktex-users >> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: SlickEdit Inc. Develop an edge. > The most comprehensive and flexible code editor you can use. > Code faster. C/C++, C#, Java, HTML, XML, many more. FREE 30-Day Trial. > www.slickedit.com/sourceforge > _______________________________________________ > MiKTeX-Users mailing list > MiK...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/miktex-users > -- Brian Elmegaard (be...@me...) Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Energy Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Phone +45 4525 4169 Fax +45 4593 5215 http://www.et.dtu.dk/staff/be |
From: Brian E. <be...@me...> - 2003-02-19 11:43:14
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Hi Nicolas, a short answer is that yap does not understand postscript so when it includes your figures for viewing it relies on ghostscript, and as you have seen when you have a working eps file it not possible to open it standalone in gsview. If you /want/ to use yap you have to get used to this feature/bug. The good thing is, however, that metapost postscript output is the only graphics format accepted by both latex and pdflatex. If instead you use pdflatex and gsview for previewing this, you will be in a situation where getting from latex input to useful output is a one-step process /and/ previewing the figures is painless. (If you open the pdf in acroread it is somehow locked so it will not be editable. This makes it more convenient to preview pdf's in gsview.) Regards, Brian Nicolas Anzalone wrote: > Thanks for that very helpful tip - the figures look just fine in a ps file > if I do a dvips. So I now have something I can work with. (BTW - I > mistyped my code in my email, so the curly brackets were not the problem}. > I may be pushing my luck here, but... does anyone know exactly why this is > happening? Or know of some doc that I could read? Have other people had > this difficulty? Not that a dvi version is critical, but I like to know > these things :) > > My [limited] understanding of the way these pieces all fit together > suggests that the MetaPost labels are embedded somehow into the resulting > eps file in such a way that LaTeX typesets them when the figures are > included. So I am surprised that they don't appear in the dvi. Is there > another way to include them such that they will appear in the dvi output > file as well? Or perhaps the labels are not actually processed by LaTeX, > but by the viewer itself. In that case maybe YAP is not equipped with the > proper tools to resolve the embedded labels but gsview is and that is why > dvips resolves the problem? But I can't view the figs with gsview before > I use LaTeX, so that doesn't quite fit. Maybe it is just something that is > by nature native to ps? Except that when I use ps2pdf to create a pdf > file, I don't have any problems viewing the figures either. > > In any event, thanks to both Walter and Brian for taking the time to help > me get over that particular hurdle. > > Nicolas > > On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, walter a kehowski wrote: > > >>I use metapost regularly and finally came across the following to get >>everything working properly. >> >>metapost preamble: >> >>verbatimtex >>%&latex >>\documentclass{article} >>\usepackage{amsmath} >>\usepackage{amssymb,latexsym} >>\begin{document} >>etex; >> >>prologues:=0; >> >>Keep in mind that you have 'verbatixtex' in your posting and a brace where >>there should be a parenthesis in your draw statement -- is that the problem? >> >>Once the file has been processed through metapost, run it through latex, >>then dvips, and then gsview. You should be able to see your graphic in the >>resulting postscript file. I never use dvi to view a metapost graphic. >> >>The whole sequence should be something like >> >>mp.exe file.mp >>latex.exe file.tex >>dvips.exe -q -Ppdf -z file.dvi >>gsview32c.exe /E file.ps >> >>HTH, >> >>Walter Kehowski >>wke...@co... >> >> >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------- >>This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek >>Welcome to geek heaven. >>http://thinkgeek.com/sf >>_______________________________________________ >>MiKTeX-Users mailing list >>MiK...@li... >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/miktex-users >> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: SlickEdit Inc. Develop an edge. > The most comprehensive and flexible code editor you can use. > Code faster. C/C++, C#, Java, HTML, XML, many more. FREE 30-Day Trial. > www.slickedit.com/sourceforge > _______________________________________________ > MiKTeX-Users mailing list > MiK...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/miktex-users > -- Brian Elmegaard (be...@me...) Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Energy Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Phone +45 4525 4169 Fax +45 4593 5215 http://www.et.dtu.dk/staff/be |
From: Arnout S. <arn...@ci...> - 2003-02-19 11:41:38
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Christoph Hoh wrote: > Dear MikTeX users, > > I have a problem considering the citation output when using the > authordate1-4.sty in conjunction with authordate3.bst. > > The usual outputs are, eg. > > (Miller, 1999) > when only one author is listed in the Bibtex entry > > (Miller & Smith, 1999) > when only two authors are listed in the Bibtex entry > > and > > (Miller et al._, 1999) > when more than 2 authors are listed in the Bibtex entry. > > Does anybody of you know how to avoid the free space in the third case?? > > (Miller et al._, 1999) should be (Miller et al., 1999). > leaving out the free space after "... et al." > > > Do I have to chande the .sty-file or rather the .bst-file? > > (This problem also occurs when using authordate1.bst, authordate2.bsta and > authordate4.bst) I probably know too little of the inner BibTeX workings to do meaningful suggestions, but a quick look at authordate1-4.sty seems to indicate that you should correct this in the .bst file. The .sty file doesn't seem to contain much formatting code. Anyway, I don't know if you have your specific reasons to use authordate1-4, but wouldn't this all be alot easier if you used the natbib package instead? I have the impression that it's more flexible. Regards, Arnout -- BioTeC-Bioprocess Technology and Control Department of Chemical Engineering Katholieke Universiteit Leuven W. de Croylaan 46 , B-3001 Leuven Tel. +32-16-32.26.87 Fax. +32-16-32.29.91 Email: arn...@ci... |
From: Christoph H. <chr...@ar...> - 2003-02-19 10:49:30
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Dear MikTeX users, I have a problem considering the citation output when using the authordate1-4.sty in conjunction with authordate3.bst. The usual outputs are, eg. (Miller, 1999) when only one author is listed in the Bibtex entry (Miller & Smith, 1999) when only two authors are listed in the Bibtex entry and (Miller et al._, 1999) when more than 2 authors are listed in the Bibtex entry. Does anybody of you know how to avoid the free space in the third case?? (Miller et al._, 1999) should be (Miller et al., 1999). leaving out the free space after "... et al." Do I have to chande the .sty-file or rather the .bst-file? (This problem also occurs when using authordate1.bst, authordate2.bsta and authordate4.bst) Thanks a lot in advance! Christoph Hoh |
From: Jan H. S. <jan...@we...> - 2003-02-19 09:12:36
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I've got a question about this -- maybe someone could explain to me, what "prologues" is all about. (Including some ps-headers???) I few month ago when I started using MetaPost, I could not get any labels, neither in Yap, in Ghostview (gv on Unix), or at the postscript printer. After searching a few hours, I found a five year old posting suggesting "prologues:=1;" and installing some further fonts. (I did not install any- thing, though.) For me label work if -- and only if (!) -- I include "prologues:=1;", and in that case I'm able to view them anywhere. This applies to MiKTeX and some TeX installation on Solaris. The "only" problem I haven't really solved is some letters missing. IIRC, "btex I etex" did not work, but "btex J etex". Simply "I" worked, too, but of course with the wrong font. (I've been living with that...) Maybe someone can give some insight. Thanks, Jan Henrik Sylvester > -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- > Von: mik...@li... > [mailto:mik...@li...]Im Auftrag von Nicolas > Anzalone > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 19. Februar 2003 02:23 > An: mik...@li... > Betreff: Re: [MiKTeX] Newbie: MetaPost label font > > > Thanks for that very helpful tip - the figures look just fine in a ps file > if I do a dvips. So I now have something I can work with. (BTW - I > mistyped my code in my email, so the curly brackets were not the > problem}. > I may be pushing my luck here, but... does anyone know exactly why this is > happening? Or know of some doc that I could read? Have other people had > this difficulty? Not that a dvi version is critical, but I like to know > these things :) > > My [limited] understanding of the way these pieces all fit together > suggests that the MetaPost labels are embedded somehow into the resulting > eps file in such a way that LaTeX typesets them when the figures are > included. So I am surprised that they don't appear in the dvi. Is there > another way to include them such that they will appear in the dvi output > file as well? Or perhaps the labels are not actually processed by LaTeX, > but by the viewer itself. In that case maybe YAP is not equipped with the > proper tools to resolve the embedded labels but gsview is and that is why > dvips resolves the problem? But I can't view the figs with gsview before > I use LaTeX, so that doesn't quite fit. Maybe it is just something that is > by nature native to ps? Except that when I use ps2pdf to create a pdf > file, I don't have any problems viewing the figures either. > > In any event, thanks to both Walter and Brian for taking the time to help > me get over that particular hurdle. > > Nicolas > > On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, walter a kehowski wrote: > > > I use metapost regularly and finally came across the following to get > > everything working properly. > > > > metapost preamble: > > > > verbatimtex > > %&latex > > \documentclass{article} > > \usepackage{amsmath} > > \usepackage{amssymb,latexsym} > > \begin{document} > > etex; > > > > prologues:=0; > > > > Keep in mind that you have 'verbatixtex' in your posting and a > brace where > > there should be a parenthesis in your draw statement -- is that > the problem? > > > > Once the file has been processed through metapost, run it through latex, > > then dvips, and then gsview. You should be able to see your > graphic in the > > resulting postscript file. I never use dvi to view a metapost graphic. > > > > The whole sequence should be something like > > > > mp.exe file.mp > > latex.exe file.tex > > dvips.exe -q -Ppdf -z file.dvi > > gsview32c.exe /E file.ps > > > > HTH, > > > > Walter Kehowski > > wke...@co... > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > _______________________________________________ > > MiKTeX-Users mailing list > > MiK...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/miktex-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: SlickEdit Inc. Develop an edge. > The most comprehensive and flexible code editor you can use. > Code faster. C/C++, C#, Java, HTML, XML, many more. FREE 30-Day Trial. > www.slickedit.com/sourceforge > _______________________________________________ > MiKTeX-Users mailing list > MiK...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/miktex-users > |
From: Arnout S. <arn...@ci...> - 2003-02-19 08:19:17
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Francisco A. S. Grossi wrote: > After installing the latest MikTex updates, YAP displays all colored > figures (made by pstricks) in black and white. You probably should check your Yap configuration. View menu > Options, then go to the "Postscript" tab. Under "Quality", select something different from "monochrome" and you'll be ready to rock. Regards, Arnout -- BioTeC-Bioprocess Technology and Control Department of Chemical Engineering Katholieke Universiteit Leuven W. de Croylaan 46 , B-3001 Leuven Tel. +32-16-32.26.87 Fax. +32-16-32.29.91 Email: arn...@ci... |
From: <hyp...@ti...> - 2003-02-19 06:49:48
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Hello, probably I'm very stupid to answer in such a way, anyway have you try with at-Nicolae instead of at_Nicolae? Bye. Jack. >Hello. > >Can anyone figure out how to fix the following problem? > >I am trying the following command in order to define the path differentl= y >depending on the computer I work on. I consequently created a file named= >at_Nicolae and tried the following command. >It turns out that, no matter how I write the name of the file, and even when >I put the file in the same directory as the .tex file I work with, and >whether I include an extension or not, the value returned by the >\IfFileExists clause is always zero. > >\IfFileExists{C:/Research-General/Research/General-Tex/at_Nicolae} >{\newcommand{\bibdir}{C:/Research-General/Research/General-Tex/}} >{\newcommand{\bibdir}{}} > > >Thank you very much. >Nicolae > > > |
From: Anung B. A. <bar...@du...> - 2003-02-19 04:40:35
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Hi MiKTeX users, I made a slide using foil package. The slides has several listing program in it, and I use fancyvrb package for displaying the listing. About a year ago, I successfully compiled the file to the .ps and .pdf files, but just yesterday, I recompiled it, MiKTeX complains something like this: no fancyvrb.cfg blah.. blah.. blah type \end to end *_ I don't remember installing any new packages during last one year, what probably might cause this problem? TIA for any help, Cheers, --Ag.B |
From: Francisco A. S. G. <fg...@us...> - 2003-02-19 03:53:38
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After installing the latest MikTex updates, YAP displays all colored figures (made by pstricks) in black and white. Previously, I had all colo= rs displyed, althouth any refresh caused the figure disappear almost complet= ely (only text remained).=0D =0D It seems that yap always had problems with pstrick generated figures, but= it was better in the past; I mean, yap used to do a better job in the past.=0D =0D Francisco Grossi =0D =0D -------Original Message-------=0D =0D From: mik...@li...=0D Date: segunda-feira, 17 de fevereiro de 2003 18:57:28=0D To: mik...@li...=0D Subject: Re:[MiKTeX] lucida fonts users... help is needed=0D =0D Andres: =0D =0D The commands=0D =0D %% Lucida Bright -------------------------------------------------=0D \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}=0D \usepackage[expert]{lucidabr}=0D =0D right after your \documentclass declaration should work.=0D =0D Walter=0D wke...@co...=0D =0D =0D =0D =0D -------------------------------------------------------=0D This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek=0D Welcome to geek heaven.=0D http://thinkgeek.com/sf=0D _______________________________________________=0D MiKTeX-Users mailing list=0D MiK...@li...=0D https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/miktex-users=0D =0D =2E=20 |
From: Nicolas A. <nja...@cs...> - 2003-02-19 01:23:44
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Thanks for that very helpful tip - the figures look just fine in a ps file if I do a dvips. So I now have something I can work with. (BTW - I mistyped my code in my email, so the curly brackets were not the problem}. I may be pushing my luck here, but... does anyone know exactly why this is happening? Or know of some doc that I could read? Have other people had this difficulty? Not that a dvi version is critical, but I like to know these things :) My [limited] understanding of the way these pieces all fit together suggests that the MetaPost labels are embedded somehow into the resulting eps file in such a way that LaTeX typesets them when the figures are included. So I am surprised that they don't appear in the dvi. Is there another way to include them such that they will appear in the dvi output file as well? Or perhaps the labels are not actually processed by LaTeX, but by the viewer itself. In that case maybe YAP is not equipped with the proper tools to resolve the embedded labels but gsview is and that is why dvips resolves the problem? But I can't view the figs with gsview before I use LaTeX, so that doesn't quite fit. Maybe it is just something that is by nature native to ps? Except that when I use ps2pdf to create a pdf file, I don't have any problems viewing the figures either. In any event, thanks to both Walter and Brian for taking the time to help me get over that particular hurdle. Nicolas On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, walter a kehowski wrote: > I use metapost regularly and finally came across the following to get > everything working properly. > > metapost preamble: > > verbatimtex > %&latex > \documentclass{article} > \usepackage{amsmath} > \usepackage{amssymb,latexsym} > \begin{document} > etex; > > prologues:=0; > > Keep in mind that you have 'verbatixtex' in your posting and a brace where > there should be a parenthesis in your draw statement -- is that the problem? > > Once the file has been processed through metapost, run it through latex, > then dvips, and then gsview. You should be able to see your graphic in the > resulting postscript file. I never use dvi to view a metapost graphic. > > The whole sequence should be something like > > mp.exe file.mp > latex.exe file.tex > dvips.exe -q -Ppdf -z file.dvi > gsview32c.exe /E file.ps > > HTH, > > Walter Kehowski > wke...@co... > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > MiKTeX-Users mailing list > MiK...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/miktex-users > |
From: walter a k. <wke...@co...> - 2003-02-18 22:22:13
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Brian, Is it the most recent update for MiKTeX? I believe that's where the problem is. In fact, I sent Christian Schenk the same example metapost file and he had the same problem with the tmp directory. He has assured me that he will fix it by the next update. Walter Kehowski wke...@co... |
From: walter a k. <wke...@co...> - 2003-02-18 22:16:21
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I use metapost regularly and finally came across the following to get everything working properly. metapost preamble: verbatimtex %&latex \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amssymb,latexsym} \begin{document} etex; prologues:=0; Keep in mind that you have 'verbatixtex' in your posting and a brace where there should be a parenthesis in your draw statement -- is that the problem? Once the file has been processed through metapost, run it through latex, then dvips, and then gsview. You should be able to see your graphic in the resulting postscript file. I never use dvi to view a metapost graphic. The whole sequence should be something like mp.exe file.mp latex.exe file.tex dvips.exe -q -Ppdf -z file.dvi gsview32c.exe /E file.ps HTH, Walter Kehowski wke...@co... |
From: Philip G. R. <phi...@ti...> - 2003-02-18 22:15:47
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> You might want to try using a back-slash for the paths (that is, use > C:\Research-General\Research\ . . .) Jeremy, did you actually try this suggestion out? I suspect not since it gives, not surprisingly, the following error message: ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> C:\Research -General\Research \General -Tex\at _Nicolae l.19 ...:/Research-General/Research/General-Tex/}} Please, see my mailing of 26/01/03. > -----Original Message----- > ... It turns out that, no matter how ... the value returned by the > \IfFileExists clause is always zero. > > \IfFileExists{C:/Research-General/Research/General-Tex/at_Nicolae} > > {\newcommand{\bibdir}{C:/Research-General/Research/General-Tex/}} > > {\newcommand{\bibdir}{}} Well, if the blank lines in between the arguments are as you used them, then that's the answer. Remove them. I did and it worked perfectly (of course). The explanation is simple: a blank line is equivalent to a \par command and an explicit \par (i.e., not enclose in {}) finishes any preceding command that wasn't defined as \long. So, what you wrote is executed as a series of commands. The \newcommand repeated for \bibdir does NOT lead to an error because it's enclosed in {} and therefore is only local, i.e., neither definition actually survives. Cheers, Phil Ratcliffe |
From: Luis C. C. Gon?v. <lu...@ua...> - 2003-02-18 19:05:21
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Dear all With the new actualizations of Miktex I have a problem with table of contents and table of figures. When I have a section with a long name the index appears with the number and name in the margin or outside the page instead to pass to the next line (in the index). Could anyone give me a soluction to that? Regards Luis Gonçalves |
From: Fogg, J. <Jer...@oj...> - 2003-02-18 19:02:39
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You might want to try using a back-slash for the paths (that is, use C:\Research-General\Research\ . . .) You might also need to use the "short-file name" (the DOS 8.3 naming conventions) for each of the subdirectories & file-name: For example, C:\Resear~1\Resear~1\ . . . J. Fogg 8) -----Original Message----- From: GARLEANU Nicolae <Nic...@in...> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 18:35:50 +0100 Reply-To: mik...@li... Can anyone figure out how to fix the following problem? I am trying the following command in order to define the path differently depending on the computer I work on. I consequently created a file named at_Nicolae and tried the following command. It turns out that, no matter how I write the name of the file, and even when I put the file in the same directory as the .tex file I work with, and whether I include an extension or not, the value returned by the \IfFileExists clause is always zero. \IfFileExists{C:/Research-General/Research/General-Tex/at_Nicolae} {\newcommand{\bibdir}{C:/Research-General/Research/General-Tex/}} {\newcommand{\bibdir}{}} Thank you very much. Nicolae |
From: Nicolas A. <nja...@cs...> - 2003-02-18 18:55:49
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Thanks for the tip Brian - but I think I'm still doing something wrong. What commands/switches are you using? If I set prologues:=0 or comment it out, then I can no longer view the eps file in GSView (which I assume is a good sign), but then the figure also no longer appears in my article. Using the example I have below, and the following tex file: \documentclass{amsart} \usepackage{amssymb, latexsym} \begin{document} \begin{figure} [h] \centering \includegraphics{testing.1} \caption{Testing MetaPost Labels} \label{fig:testing} \end{figure} \end{document} and these commands: mp -tex=latex testing.mp latex testing.tex Results in a dvi which appears to make space for the figure, but no figure appears. Any suggestions? Thanks, Nicolas On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Brian Elmegaard wrote: > Hi Nicolas, > > You should disable/comment prologues. > > This will make it impossible to open the file in gsview by itself, but > it will be perfect when included in a latex document. > > Brian > > > Nicolas Anzalone wrote: > > Hi There, > > > > I'm just learning how to use MetaPost AND TeX via MikTex and have been > > having some trouble with labels. I saw a couple posts recently about the > > "TMP" and TEMP" env vars in windows which were very helpful and got me > > through one problem. So I thought I would post this other problem and see > > if someone might be willing to take a moment to help. > > > > The trouble is that the labels always seem to show up in (what I think is) > > Courier. For example, the following code: > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > > verbatixtex > > \documentclass{amsart} > > \usepackage{amssymb, latexsym} > > \begin{document} > > etex > > > > beginfig(1); > > draw {1cm,1cm)--(4cm,1cm)--(3cm,5cm)--cycle; > > label.top(btex $Triangle(A_{n_1})$ etex, (3cm,5cm)); > > label.rt(btex $G(1,2)$ etex, (3cm,1cm)); > > endfig; > > > > end; > > ----------------------------------------------- > > > > produces an eps file with labels that appear to be in Courier, in addition > > to which the $G(1,2)$ appears as "G(1;2)" for some reason. > > > > My confusion is this: I am creating some figures for an article. Being > > new to tex, I assumed that the font type for the article was set by either > > the \documentclass or \usepackage tags. Our article, however, compiles in > > Times with the same specifiers that I am using in the metapost verbatimtex > > statement above. I can't find any explicit font declarations, so I'm not > > sure where else it could be set. > > > > making an adjustment to the code such as: > > > > \documentclass[8pt]{amsart} > > > > appears to change the label font size, however > > > > \documentclass[times]{amsart} > > > > results in no change and the following warning: > > > > LaTex Warning: Unused global option(s): > > [times]. > > > > I would greatly appreciate it if someone could point me to some specific > > documentation that might help clear up my misunderstanding and allow me to > > produce labels in Times. Also, any help explaining the mysterious "," to > > ";" substitution would be appreciated as well. > > > > Nicolas Anzalone > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > _______________________________________________ > > MiKTeX-Users mailing list > > MiK...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/miktex-users > > > > > -- > Brian Elmegaard (be...@me...) > Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Energy Engineering, > Technical University of Denmark, Phone +45 4525 4169 Fax +45 4593 5215 > http://www.et.dtu.dk/staff/be > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > MiKTeX-Users mailing list > MiK...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/miktex-users > |
From: <Mar...@t-...> - 2003-02-18 18:44:11
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Markus Neff <Mar...@t-...> wrote: > > If your *.eps file is not to "complicated" you could use a tool like > > "purifyeps" to simplify your *.eps file ... "pdflatex" as well as > > "latex" should then be able to include this simple *.eps file. Alan G Isaac writes: > Is the nature of "simple" documented somewhere. > I did not realize that pdflatex could include > EPS files under certain constraints. Hi Alan ! Just note before I start: I am neither an postscript nor an pdf expert! If something I write below is unclear or incorrect, I would highly appreciate comments from someone who knows it better ... As far as I know, the PDF format inherited a lot of its "features" from Postscript but unlike PS, PDF is not a complete programming language. In Postscript it is for example possible to define your own macros or commands which I think is not possible in PDF. But if you look at the commands for drawing a simple line on the other hand, you will notice that the respective commands in PS and PDF are very similar. I think this similarity is what "metapost" uses to generate "simple" postscript output that can be fed to "(La)TeX" (which leaves the job of embeding the eps files to dvips I think) or "pdf(La)TeX" (which has to map these simple PS commands to the analogous PDF commands). I don't know whether or where "simple" is documented but I would start looking for the definition or hints somewhere in the documentation of "metapost" or "pdfTeX". Regarding "purifyeps": I think this tool is a perl script that uses "pstoedit" to convert PS files to MP (metapost source) and then runs these files through "metapost" to generate very "simple" PS code. You can simply get an idea of what I mean by "simple" if you compare the output of metapost to the output of Adobe Illustrator ... I hope I could help ... Greetings and good luck, Markus |
From: Alan G I. <ai...@am...> - 2003-02-18 17:49:45
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On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:42:59 +0100 Markus Neff <Mar...@t-...> wrote: > If your *.eps file is not to "complicated" you could use a tool like > "purifyeps" to simplify your *.eps file ... "pdflatex" as well as > "latex" should then be able to include this simple *.eps file. Is the nature of "simple" documented somewhere. I did not realize that pdflatex could include EPS files under certain constraints. Thanks, Alan Isaac |
From: GARLEANU N. <Nic...@in...> - 2003-02-18 17:40:42
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Hello. Can anyone figure out how to fix the following problem? I am trying the following command in order to define the path differently depending on the computer I work on. I consequently created a file named at_Nicolae and tried the following command. It turns out that, no matter how I write the name of the file, and even when I put the file in the same directory as the .tex file I work with, and whether I include an extension or not, the value returned by the \IfFileExists clause is always zero. \IfFileExists{C:/Research-General/Research/General-Tex/at_Nicolae} {\newcommand{\bibdir}{C:/Research-General/Research/General-Tex/}} {\newcommand{\bibdir}{}} Thank you very much. Nicolae |
From: Indrajit S. <ind...@vs...> - 2003-02-18 17:31:13
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As far as I can say, if you really want to use eps graphics in pdf, then you have to convert a dvi file to ps and then to pdf. If you have ghostscript , then you can go directly from dvi to pdf. I believe it is better to use jpg images because they take less space. A program like Photoshop is very useful in these situations. All I do is change the size to my requirement and export to jpg. The rest is easy. Indrajit -----Original Message----- From: mik...@li... [mailto:mik...@li...]On Behalf Of juan antonio navarro perez Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 8:24 AM To: mik...@li... Subject: [MiKTeX] Compatible Graphic Format Hello, Is there a graphic format file which can be accepted on both latex and pdflatex compilers?? I am designing a class file with the official format for writting the thesis at our school, and i want to include the "logo" of our university at the title page. I am currently using an .eps file containing the image, but some students have complained that this is not compatible with PDF files. Is there something i can do to keep both postscript and pdf users happy?? thanks, juan antonio ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ MiKTeX-Users mailing list MiK...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/miktex-users |
From: Brian E. <be...@me...> - 2003-02-18 16:17:28
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Hi Nicolas, You should disable/comment prologues. This will make it impossible to open the file in gsview by itself, but it will be perfect when included in a latex document. Brian Nicolas Anzalone wrote: > Hi There, > > I'm just learning how to use MetaPost AND TeX via MikTex and have been > having some trouble with labels. I saw a couple posts recently about the > "TMP" and TEMP" env vars in windows which were very helpful and got me > through one problem. So I thought I would post this other problem and see > if someone might be willing to take a moment to help. > > The trouble is that the labels always seem to show up in (what I think is) > Courier. For example, the following code: > > ------------------------------------------------- > verbatixtex > \documentclass{amsart} > \usepackage{amssymb, latexsym} > \begin{document} > etex > > beginfig(1); > draw {1cm,1cm)--(4cm,1cm)--(3cm,5cm)--cycle; > label.top(btex $Triangle(A_{n_1})$ etex, (3cm,5cm)); > label.rt(btex $G(1,2)$ etex, (3cm,1cm)); > endfig; > > end; > ----------------------------------------------- > > produces an eps file with labels that appear to be in Courier, in addition > to which the $G(1,2)$ appears as "G(1;2)" for some reason. > > My confusion is this: I am creating some figures for an article. Being > new to tex, I assumed that the font type for the article was set by either > the \documentclass or \usepackage tags. Our article, however, compiles in > Times with the same specifiers that I am using in the metapost verbatimtex > statement above. I can't find any explicit font declarations, so I'm not > sure where else it could be set. > > making an adjustment to the code such as: > > \documentclass[8pt]{amsart} > > appears to change the label font size, however > > \documentclass[times]{amsart} > > results in no change and the following warning: > > LaTex Warning: Unused global option(s): > [times]. > > I would greatly appreciate it if someone could point me to some specific > documentation that might help clear up my misunderstanding and allow me to > produce labels in Times. Also, any help explaining the mysterious "," to > ";" substitution would be appreciated as well. > > Nicolas Anzalone > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > MiKTeX-Users mailing list > MiK...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/miktex-users > -- Brian Elmegaard (be...@me...) Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Energy Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Phone +45 4525 4169 Fax +45 4593 5215 http://www.et.dtu.dk/staff/be |
From: Brian E. <be...@me...> - 2003-02-18 16:16:16
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Hi Walter, Is it strange that it runs out of the box on my installation. Win 2000 US; This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (MiKTeX 2.2) C:\texmf\miktex\bin\tex.exe -interaction=nonstopmode C:/localtexmf/mpx71CA.tmp/mpx314.tex Is it because of my localtexmf setup? Brian walter a kehowski wrote: > Brian, > > The following minimal example > > verbatimtex > %&latex > \documentclass{article} > \usepackage{amsmath} > \begin{document} > etex; > > prologues:=0; > > beginfig(1); > numeric u; u:=1.0cm; > > draw (0,0)*u--(1,0)*u--(1,1)*u--(0,1)*u--cycle; > > label.llft(btex $(0,0)$ etex, (0,0)*u); > > endfig; > end; > > gives the "! I can't find file `mpx314.aux'." error. Setting the TMP > variable explicitly solved the problem. I had to set the variable from > within a bat, a perl script, and also a winedt macro -- hence my posting. I > think Markus Neff in #227 said something about setting the TMP variable. > > Walter > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > MiKTeX-Users mailing list > MiK...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/miktex-users > -- Brian Elmegaard (be...@me...) Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Energy Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Phone +45 4525 4169 Fax +45 4593 5215 http://www.et.dtu.dk/staff/be |
From: <Mar...@t-...> - 2003-02-18 09:43:25
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Juan Antonio Navarro Perez writes: > Is there a graphic format file which can be accepted on both latex > and pdflatex compilers?? I am designing a class file with the > official format for writting the thesis at our school, and i want > to include the "logo" of our university at the title page. I am > currently using an .eps file containing the image, but some > students have complained that this is not compatible with PDF > files. Hi ... As I only use pdflatex for creating my documents I never really tried one of the methods below but I heard that they should allow what you are looking for ... If your *.eps file is not to "complicated" you could use a tool like "purifyeps" to simplify your *.eps file ... "pdflatex" as well as "latex" should then be able to include this simple *.eps file. If your logo is a vector graphic you might also consider to convert it to a "metapost" graphic by hand (metapost is a kind of a "highlevel postscript language" that produces postscript output that is simple enough to allow "latex" and "pdflatex" to understand it). Hope it helps ... Greetings, Markus |
From: Proginoskes <pro...@em...> - 2003-02-18 04:15:08
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"Morten H Pedersen" <mh...@da...> wrote: > > Can you make LaTeX use a baseline grid i.e. that all lines on facing > pages or columns match vertically? You may have to resort to "Plain" TeX for this, unless someone has come up with a package for it. How about redefining \smallskipamount, \medskipamount, etc. as \smallskipamount=3pt \medskipamount=6pt i.e., with the plus and minus dimensions removed? You also need to change \output to \output={\shipout\vbox{\makeheadline\pagebody\vfill \makefootline}\advancepageno \ifnum\outputpenalty>-20000\else\dosupereject\fi} and avoid use of \vfill or \vskip in your document. On the other hand, if you use only one size font, and don't include footnotes, tables or diagrams, TeX should typeset pages the way you want it to. -- Christopher Heckman |
From: Proginoskes <pro...@em...> - 2003-02-18 04:05:22
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"juan antonio navarro perez" <ma1...@ma...> wrote: > > I am designing a class file with the official format > for writting the thesis at our school, and i want to include the "logo" > of our university at the title page. I am currently using an .eps file > containing the image, but some students have complained that this is not > compatible with PDF files. You could use BM2FONT to convert an image (bmp, jpg, gif) into a "font", which can then be used in PostScript or PDF files. (I've done this before.) Check out CTAN at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/bm2font/ . -- Christopher Heckman |