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MacOSX-TeX Digest #1413 - Friday, June 24, 2005
problem with context/m-ch-en.sty
by "William Scott"
Latex companion
by "Jeff Genung"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeX request
by "Bertrand Crettez"
Re: [OS X TeX] problem with context/m-ch-en.sty
by "Peter Breitfeld"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeX request
by "Christof Janssen"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeX request
by "Peter Dyballa"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeX request
by "Bruno Voisin"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeX request
by "Peter Dyballa"
Re: [OS X TeX] Cmd < and Cmd >
by "Jan Hegewald"
Re: [OS X TeX] Cmd < and Cmd >
by "Matthias Damm"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeX request
by "Alessandro Languasco"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeX to word on Mac
by "George Ghio"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeX to word on Mac
by "Peter Dyballa"
Re: [OS X TeX] Cmd < and Cmd >
by "Herbert Schulz"
Re: [OS X TeX] LaTeX Books
by "Paulo Ferreira"
Re: [OS X TeX] LaTeX Books
by "Luis Sequeira"
Re: [OS X TeX] Cmd < and Cmd >
by "Jan Hegewald"
Re: [OS X TeX] Cmd < and Cmd >
by "Herbert Schulz"
Latest ConTeXt i-updater.
by "Herbert Schulz"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeX request
by "Christopher Allen"
TeXShop/PdfTeX output resolution at 2400 dpi
by "ITS Mail"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop/PdfTeX output resolution at 2400 dpi
by "Herbert Schulz"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop/PdfTeX output resolution at 2400 dpi
by "Peter Dyballa"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop/PdfTeX output resolution at 2400 dpi
by "William F. Adams"
Re: [OS X TeX] Printing wrong from Acrobat, right from TeXShop
by "Josep M.Font"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeX request
by "Jean-Claude DE SOZA"
Re: [OS X TeX] LaTeX Books
by "Alain Schremmer"
Re: [OS X TeX] LaTeX Books
by "Alain Schremmer"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeX to word on Mac
by "Bob Kerstetter"
Re: [OS X TeX] problem with context/m-ch-en.sty
by "Jan Anderssen"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop/PdfTeX output resolution at 2400 dpi
by "Axel E. Retif"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop/PdfTeX output resolution at 2400 dpi
by "Josep M.Font"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop/PdfTeX output resolution at 2400 dpi
by "Aaron Jackson"
Re: [OS X TeX] Printing wrong from Acrobat, right from TeXShop
by "Peter Dyballa"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop/PdfTeX output resolution at 2400 dpi
by "Bruno Voisin"
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Subject: problem with context/m-ch-en.sty
From: "William Scott"
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:23:22 -0700
Hi Folks:
I am new to the list, and searched the archives for an answer to this
question but did not find it...
Using the current tetex installed via fink, or any of the ones
installed with ii2, I am running into the following error when using
this preamble:
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{chemarr}
\usepackage{m-ch-en}
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/context/m-ch-en.sty
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/context/m-pictex.sty
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/m-pictex.tex
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/generic/pictex/prepictex.tex)
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/generic/pictex/pictex.tex)
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/generic/pictex/postpictex.tex)))
! No room for a new \dimen .
\ch@ck ...\else \errmessage {No room for a new #3}
\fi
l.352 \newdimen\!!widtha \newdimen\!!heighta
\newdimen\!!deptha
?
This worked fine with tetex 2.x installed with fink, but upon upgrade
to 3.0 it no longer works. Installation of any of 2.x or 3.0 via ii2
also yields the above error.
I'm not sure where to begin to fix this problem, but it has made it
impossible to produce chemical formulas and symbols.
Many thanks in advance for any suggestions,
William G. Scott
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
and The Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA
Sinsheimer Laboratories
University of California at Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California 95064
USA
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Subject: Latex companion
From: "Jeff Genung"
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:43:06 -0500
Bookpool.com has "LaTeX Companion 2nd ed" for $46.95
I keep mine in the bathroom for serious thinking.
Jeff
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeX request
From: "Bertrand Crettez"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:58:00 +0200
Le 23 juin 05 =E0 22:57, Justin C. Walker a =E9crit :
>
> On Jun 23, 2005, at 13:41 , Chris Goedde wrote:
>
>> On Jun 23, 2005, at 3:24 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
>>
>>> Hello folks,
>>>
>>> I need help with a trick I want to perform. I want to be able to =20
>>> display all the digits of
>>>
>>> 2!
>>> 10!
>>> 200!
>>>
>>
>> Do you really need 200!?
>>
>> A little googling turned up http://www.cs.umd.edu/Outreach/=20
>> hsContest97/questions/node3.html which might provide a solution. I =20=
>> don't know if it will work for you, since their code may only work =20=
>> if the answer has fewer than 100 digits. (I'm also not sure what =20
>> language it's written in.)
>>
>
> The language is Pascal; the 100-digit limit is a program limitation =20=
> (the size of an array).
>
> Maybe something like Ruby is useful, if you (Gerben) want to =20
> compute some function that will spit out potentially large numbers =20
> of digits.
>
> e.g:
>
> $ cat foo.rb
> def fact(n) if n =3D=3D 1 then 1 else n*fact(n-1) end end
> print fact(200), "\n"
> $ ruby foo.rb
> 7886578673647905035523632139321850622951359776871732632947425332443594=20=
> 4996340334292030428401198462390417721213891963883025764279024263710506=20=
> 1926624952829931113462857270763317237396988943922445621451664240254033=20=
> 2918641312274282948532775242424075739032403212574055795686602260319041=20=
> 7032406235170085879617892222278962370389737472000000000000000000000000=20=
> 0000000000000000000000000
>
>
>
>>> I think that 200! has close to 400 digits in the answer, if my =20
>>> back-of-the-envelope answer is correct.
>>>
>
> That's 375 :-}
>
> Cheers,
>
> Justin
>
> --
> Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large
> Institute for General Semantics
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] problem with context/m-ch-en.sty
From: "Peter Breitfeld"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:34:41 +0200
Am 24. Jun 2005 um 02:23 schrieb William Scott:
> Hi Folks:
>
> I am new to the list, and searched the archives for an answer to this =20=
> question but did not find it...
>
> Using the current tetex installed via fink, or any of the ones =20
> installed with ii2, I am running into the following error when using =20=
> this preamble:
>
> \documentclass[10pt]{article}
> \usepackage{geometry}
> \usepackage{chemarr}
> \usepackage{m-ch-en}
>
>
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/context/m-ch-en.sty
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/context/m-pictex.sty
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/m-pictex.tex
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/generic/pictex/prepictex.tex)
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/generic/pictex/pictex.tex)
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/generic/pictex/=20
> postpictex.tex)))
> ! No room for a new \dimen .
> \ch@ck ...\else \errmessage {No room for a new #3}
> \fi
> l.352 \newdimen\!!widtha \newdimen\!!heighta
> \newdimen\!!deptha
> ?
>
It seems that one of your packages needs pictex, which is known to use =20=
a huge amount of dimension registers.
On my gwTeX installation (teTeX 3 with iinstaller) there is an =20
alternative
pictexwd.sty and pictexwd.tex which claims to use less dimension =20
registers.
Maybe you can persuade your chemical package to use pictexwd instead of =20=
pictex or just change the line "\input pictex" in pictex.sty to =20
"\input pictexwd".
Gru=DF Peter
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=3D=3D-=3D=3D-=3D=3D-=3D=3D-=3D=3D-=3D=3D-=3D=3D-=3D=3D-=3D=3D-=3D=3D
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=3D=3D-=3D=3D-=3D=3D-=3D=3D-=3D=3D-=3D=3D-=3D=3D-=3D=3D-=3D=3D-=3D=3D
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeX request
From: "Christof Janssen"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:52:09 +0200
Copy first result in Mathematica and subtract 200! gives 0.
Christof
Am 24. Jun 2005 um 00:13 schrieb Peter Dyballa:
> 7886578673647905035523632139321850622951359776871732632947425332443594
> 4996340334292030428401198462390417721213891963883025764279024263710506
> 1926624952829931113462857270763317237396988943922445621451664240254033
> 2918641312274282948532775242424075739032403212574055795686602260319041
> 7032406235170085879617892222278962370389737472000000000000000000000000
> 0000000000000000000000000
>
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeX request
From: "Peter Dyballa"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:04:57 +0200
Am 24.06.2005 um 09:52 schrieb Christof Janssen:
> Copy first result in Mathematica and subtract 200! gives 0.
>
I'm glad to read that calc makes no mistake! So my decision that calc=20
and bc are good enough for me is still valid ... and I can continue to=20=
go to cinema with the money I saved.
--
Mit friedvollen Gr=FC=DFen
Pete
In Deutschland kann es keine Revolution geben, weil mensch dazu den=20
Rasen betreten m=FCsste. (Joseph Stalin)
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeX request
From: "Bruno Voisin"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:11:48 +0200
Le 24 juin 05 =E0 10:04, Peter Dyballa a =E9crit :
> I'm glad to read that calc makes no mistake! So my decision that =20
> calc and bc are good enough for me is still valid ... and I can =20
> continue to go to cinema with the money I saved.
Do they do spheroidal wave functions and the like? That's the kind of =20=
obscure special functions I need, as well as good-looking 3D =20
graphics. Whence my sticking to Mathematica :-}
That said I love cinema too!
Bruno Voisin=
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeX request
From: "Peter Dyballa"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:39:54 +0200
Am 24.06.2005 um 10:11 schrieb Bruno Voisin:
> Do they do spheroidal wave functions and the like?
Not yet, I presume ... and I don't need that sort of mathematics.
BTW, can Mathematica give me the UTF-7, UTF-8, UTF-16-xx codes for
Unicode code points (UCS-2, that's what GNU Emacs is using internally)?
That's something I'd like to have, best on the command line (or from an
Emacs buffer).
I think the origin of this abstract thread is that I wrote last night
that calc's calculations of 2! and 10! looked to be likely, which isn't
so easy to write of a number with only 375 digits, when others guessed
400 digits then. I honestly did not imagine calc could make an error
with such a simple function ... (more easily copy&paste could, of
course), and as here too I made a joke last night.
I haven't read the whole documentation on calc yet. Could be it can do
some more than arithemetics.
--
Greetings
Pete
Bake Pizza not war!
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Cmd < and Cmd >
From: "Jan Hegewald"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:57:52 +0200
Hello,
Am 17.06.2005 um 04:37 schrieb Herbert Schulz:
>
> On Jun 16, 2005, at 4:50 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>
>> Le 16 juin 05 =E0 20:55, Friedrich Vosberg a =E9crit :
>>
>>
>>
>>> Sorry, but it gives me the willies, I type Cmd > and the windows =20
>>> don't toggle. All of my -- really abolute with no exception -- =20
>>> applications that I use toggle the windows when typing Cmd >. But =20=
>>> not TeXShop (German) 2.03.
>>>
>>> It drives me crazy! Is there anywhere outside there a dirty hack =20
>>> to get back the Cmd > for toggling the windows?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Given Cmd-< and Cmd-> are used by TeXShop to indent and unindent =20
>> lines, the OS X meanings of these shortcuts (for toggling windows) =20=
>> cannot work any longer in TeXShop.
>>
>> Only hope: change TeXShop's keyboard shortcuts, to something else =20
>> than Cmd-< and Cmd->. This is supposedly done by editing ~/Library/=20=
>> TeXShop/Menus/KeyEquivalents.plist, but IIRC recent posts on this =20
>> list there's something broken in this file at the moment.
>>
>> Bruno Voisin
>>
>
> Howdy,
>
> Nothing broken that can't be easily fixed by removing both long =20
> comments after using the examples there to make your changes.
>
I can=B4t get this to work here. All I want to do is remove cmd-< from =20=
TeXShop=B4s keyboard shortcuts. I added
4
4
to ~/Library/TeXShop/Menus/KeyEquivalents.plist inside an uncommented =20=
toplevel statement. Nothing changes if I restart =20
TeXShop. What to do?
TIA,
--Jan--=
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Cmd < and Cmd >
From: "Matthias Damm"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:04:13 +0200
Am 24.06.2005 um 10:57 schrieb Jan Hegewald:
> to ~/Library/TeXShop/Menus/KeyEquivalents.plist inside an
> uncommented toplevel statement. Nothing changes if I
> restart TeXShop. What to do?
Edit Mainmenu.nib
best,
Matthias
--
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mad@macpla.net
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PGP fingerprint: CED3 6074 7F7D 3148 C6F3 DFF2 05FF 3A0B 0D12 4D41
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeX request
From: "Alessandro Languasco"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:05:45 +0200
I think that a good tool to do calculations with arbitrarily long
arithmeric is PARI/GP (which is GPL).
http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/
It is essentially a set of liibraries (that can be used in C)
and has also a front-end mode that can be used as
mathematica or maple.
Regards,
Alessandro
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeX to word on Mac
From: "George Ghio"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:14:48 +1000
I may be slow but I will get there. The file to convert is the "source"
file not the "output"(PDF) file?
And thank you for putting up with my ignorance.
George L Ghio
On 24/06/2005, at 3:11 AM, Bob Kerstetter wrote:
>
> On Jun 23, 2005, at 9:27 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
>>
>> Am 23.06.2005 um 15:45 schrieb George Ghio:
>>
>>
>>> htlatex filename
>>>
>>> Too easy, just one question. Which file am I converting?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> LaTeX -> HTML
>
> when filename is the name of your file it does some thing like this, i
> think:
>
> filename.tex ---> filename.dvi ---> filename.html
>
>
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeX to word on Mac
From: "Peter Dyballa"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:31:07 +0200
Am 24.06.2005 um 12:14 schrieb George Ghio:
> The file to convert is the "source" file not the "output"(PDF) file?
Write! Ahemm: right!! You first need to write the LaTeX source file.=20
This one is then converted to DVI, from which the HTML output is=20
created. This is quite easy because the DVI language elements are=20
public and known and finite. And it's convenient too, since it's based=20=
on the quite usual production cycle of writing, observing, correcting,=20=
checking, ..., deleting?
--
Greetings
Pete
"Evolution" o __o _o _
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oo~_______ /\ /\______/ \_________O/ O_______________o=3D=3D=3D>-->O--o___=
_
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Cmd < and Cmd >
From: "Herbert Schulz"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 06:01:06 -0500
On Jun 24, 2005, at 3:57 AM, Jan Hegewald wrote:
>
> I can=B4t get this to work here. All I want to do is remove cmd-< =20
> from TeXShop=B4s keyboard shortcuts. I added
>
> 4
>
> 4
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> to ~/Library/TeXShop/Menus/KeyEquivalents.plist inside an =20
> uncommented toplevel statement. Nothing changes if I =20
> restart TeXShop. What to do?
>
> TIA,
>
>
Howdy,
I think you've eliminated too much. Try:
4
4
and see if that works.
Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
(herbs@wideopenwest.com)
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] LaTeX Books
From: "Paulo Ferreira"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:10:36 +0100
>Paulo Ferreira wrote:
>
>>BUT, there is a box called "The LaTeX Companions, Revised Set" that has
>>both books plus "The LaTeX Graphics Companion" and "The Latex Web =
Companion",
>>in a total of four LaTeX books.
>
>I have "both books" and I do all my graphics in Intaglio, save them
>as pdf and "include" them. Am I missing something and should I buy
>"The LaTeX Graphics Companion"?
>
>Thanks and regards
>--schremmer
Perhaps not.
It depends on what kind of graphics you do, and if there is already a =
package
of doing that kind of graphics.
"The LaTeX Graphics Companion" is focused im "making graphics" using
Tex and Postscript.
You can see the table of contents at:
http://www.awprofessional.com/titles/0201854694
Greetings
Paulo Ferreira
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] LaTeX Books
From: "Luis Sequeira"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:15:32 +0100
>Paulo Ferreira wrote:
>
>> BUT, there is a box called "The LaTeX Companions, Revised Set" that =
has
>> both books plus "The LaTeX Graphics Companion" and "The Latex Web
>> Companion",
>> in a total of four LaTeX books.
>
>I have "both books" and I do all my graphics in Intaglio, save them as
>pdf and "include" them. Am I missing something and should I buy "The
>LaTeX Graphics Companion"?
>
>Thanks and regards
>--schremmer
There is no problem with your workflow. However, some people do
prefer to deal with some, or most, graphics from within LaTeX, using
tools like pstricks, xy-pic, metapost. I write lots of graphics for
my teaching work and use pstricks and related packages for precise
mathematical drawing (and perfect integration with LaTeX - think
fonts in graphics labels, for instance). I wouldn't trade that for
anything else. I own a copy "The LaTeX Graphics Companion", which has
a whole chapter on pstricks, but I rely mostly on the pstricks
manual, which, as a matter of fact, is included in Gerben's
distribution, so is there already on my (and on your) mac.
Luis Sequeira
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Cmd < and Cmd >
From: "Jan Hegewald"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:19:16 +0200
Hello,
Am 24.06.2005 um 13:01 schrieb Herbert Schulz:
> Howdy,
>
> I think you've eliminated too much. Try:
>
>
> "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
>
>
> 4
>
> 4
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> and see if that works.
>
no, that=B4s what I already tried. I have inserted more than one
...
items to change other shortcuts as well. That=B4s why I only posted a =20=
snippet.
But this does not work. I successful changed the shortcut via Mac OS =20
X System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse.
Maybe the ~/Library/TeXShop/Menus/KeyEquivalents.plist does not work =20
for German?
Thanks,
Jan=
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Cmd < and Cmd >
From: "Herbert Schulz"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 06:31:31 -0500
On Jun 24, 2005, at 6:19 AM, Jan Hegewald wrote:
>
> no, that=B4s what I already tried. I have inserted more than one
>
>
>
> ...
>
> items to change other shortcuts as well. That=B4s why I only posted a =20=
> snippet.
> But this does not work. I successful changed the shortcut via Mac =20
> OS X System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse.
> Maybe the ~/Library/TeXShop/Menus/KeyEquivalents.plist does not =20
> work for German?
>
> Thanks,
> Jan
Howdy,
I tried it with the US keyboard and it did work; make sure you =20
restart TeXShop after changing the file. It is certainly possible =20
that there are problems with other keyboards but I don't know.
Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
(herbs@wideopenwest.com)
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Subject: Latest ConTeXt i-updater.
From: "Herbert Schulz"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:04:49 -0500
Howdy,
I finally got around to trying to find out what went wrong with the
ConTeXt i-update a while ago (wanted to run it and capture the log,
etc.) when I discovered that there is a new one up. As a matter of
fact I missed an updater in between. Using the latest updater for
``ConTeXt stable'' everything is working fine. I wonder what the
difference between them was?
Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
(herbs@wideopenwest.com)
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeX request
From: "Christopher Allen"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:25:41 -0400
> Which seems to make 376 digits. I'm impressed, and curious about your
> envelope: which algorithm did you use? Stirling's formula?
It wasn't my back-of-the-envelope, but here's a simple way. A sum of
the base 10 logarithms of 1 to 200 gives 375. It's not exactly a
general method, but it works very well for any base and for functions
that use multiplication, and it can be done very quickly on a computer.
Chris
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Subject: TeXShop/PdfTeX output resolution at 2400 dpi
From: "ITS Mail"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:54:45 +0100
Hello all,
I need to make sure that the resolution of my final PDF is at least 2400
dpi to send to a printing house. What is the best way to check and
customise this using TeXShop/teTeX? I have not been able to find an
answer to this browsing the web, and I would really appreciate your
advice before meddling with any configuration files. I am using PdfTeX
as TeXShop's default.
Muchas gracias in advance!
Salvete,
Juan
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop/PdfTeX output resolution at 2400 dpi
From: "Herbert Schulz"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:11:20 -0500
On Jun 24, 2005, at 7:54 AM, ITS Mail wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I need to make sure that the resolution of my final PDF is at least
> 2400
> dpi to send to a printing house. What is the best way to check and
> customise this using TeXShop/teTeX? I have not been able to find an
> answer to this browsing the web, and I would really appreciate your
> advice before meddling with any configuration files. I am using PdfTeX
> as TeXShop's default.
>
> Muchas gracias in advance!
> Salvete,
> Juan
Howdy,
If you're talking about fonts you shouldn't have any problems since
the standard fonts used now are Postscript Type 1 which are not bit
mapped so they look good at any resolution. If you're talking about
included graphics then the resolution will depend upon the particular
graphic if it's bit mapped.
Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
(herbs@wideopenwest.com)
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop/PdfTeX output resolution at 2400 dpi
From: "Peter Dyballa"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:00:32 +0200
Am 24.06.2005 um 14:54 schrieb ITS Mail:
> I need to make sure that the resolution of my final PDF is at least
> 2400
> dpi to send to a printing house. What is the best way to check and
> customise this using TeXShop/teTeX?
I think basically you can have only two different things in a printable
PDF file from TeX: text and graphics. Text needs a font, so make sure
you're using only vector based fonts, i.e. PostScript, TrueType,
OpenType, *no* PK. This should work, since I all more or less usual TeX
fonts (Computer Modern, Concrete. AMS, ...) are meanwhile available as
PostScript fonts. But look nevertheless into the log file: footnotes,
footnote marks, captions are usually (?) set in a different TeX then
the one(s) you choose for the main text with a \usepackage{times, ...}
or such.
If you use graphics to explain things, try to use pstricks. PS is
vector based and renders in any resolution. I think this quality is
saved too when you have EPS without bitmapped graphic content that you
need to convert to PDF -- but here I am not completely sure. If you
have other graphics you should try to convert it to PostScript or PDF.
Screenshots at 72 DPI probably can be 'enhanced' to not look like LEGO
at 2.400 DPI, but probably this work will take a long weekend, possibly
for each screenshot.
Look at your graphics at 3.000 % magnification -- that's close to from
72 DPI -> 2.400 DPI.
--
Greetings
Pete
Behold the warranty ... the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh
away.
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop/PdfTeX output resolution at 2400 dpi
From: "William F. Adams"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:21:59 -0400
On Jun 24, 2005, at 10:00 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> If you use graphics to explain things, try to use pstricks. PS is
> vector based and renders in any resolution. I think this quality is
> saved too when you have EPS without bitmapped graphic content that you
> need to convert to PDF -- but here I am not completely sure. If you
> have other graphics you should try to convert it to PostScript or PDF.
> Screenshots at 72 DPI probably can be 'enhanced' to not look like LEGO
> at 2.400 DPI, but probably this work will take a long weekend,
> possibly for each screenshot.
No work at all.
Just don't resample them (shrinking / enlarging is okay) and they'll
turn out okay.
If you desire better quality open them in PhotoShop 6 or later and
re-save them as .eps or .pdf with the ``direct interpolation key''
turned on.
Here's a graphic which shows the difference:
http://members.aol.com/willadams/portfolio/interfaceconcepts/
screengrabcomp.pdf
Alternately, you can do like Michael Harvey and just re-draw them all
in pen and ink as he did for his book _Creative Lettering Today_
> Look at your graphics at 3.000 % magnification -- that's close to from
> 72 DPI -> 2.400 DPI.
Probably the better thing to do here is work out what sort of .pdf
requirements the printer has and either re-distill to that, or check
the output using a pre-flight program.
William
--
William Adams, publishing specialist
voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708
www.atlis.com
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Printing wrong from Acrobat, right from TeXShop
From: "Josep M.Font"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:45:56 +0200
El 22 jun 2005, a las 10:46, Peter Dyballa escribi=F3:
> Am 21.06.2005 um 23:46 schrieb Josep M.Font:
>
>> Since some weeks, a strange problem happens to me from time to=20
>> time--not always: If I try to print from Acrobat Reader a pdf file=20
>> produced by some TeX variety, some fonts, not all, seem to be missing=20=
>> and are substituted by courier, with wrong spacing, etc. This seems=20=
>> to happen with only some sizes of cmr, since \Large, \textbf,=20
>> \textsc, maths, etc. print OK. The file is correctly viewed on=20
>> screen, and moreover if I open it with TeXShop--even when it was=20
>> produced in another computer with another TeX--then it prints=20
>> correctly!
>
> Hello!
>
> At the end you mention some details about your system, but nothing=20
> about the Acrobat or Adobe Reader's version.
It's Adober Reader 6.0. I've upgraded to 7.0.1, and will wait until it=20=
happens again (as I said, it happens only from time to time). I will=20
carefully note which files, how they wwere produced, etc...
Thanks for your otherwise interesting information. Unfortunately, I=20
cannot experiment with other printers... but will try to install this=20
WebJetAdmin (although I am not very optimistic about it, because the=20
printer lives in a network where other Windows-based machines also=20
live...).
As to Bruno's comments, just notice I am still with Panther... Thanks=20
anyway!
JMaF
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeX request
From: "Jean-Claude DE SOZA"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:49:25 +0200
Gerben,
In a text file, enter :
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
class Integer
def factorial
(1..self).inject(1) { |f, n| f * n }
end
end
puts 200.factorial
Save it as fact.rb and run it with ./fact.rb or ruby fact.rb
Jean-Claude DE SOZA
Le 23 juin 05 =E0 22:24, Gerben Wierda a =E9crit :
> Hello folks,
>
> I need help with a trick I want to perform. I want to be able to =20
> display all the digits of
>
> 2!
> 10!
> 200!
>
> I need some sort of perl, ruby, bc or other way to produce all the =20
> digits. Then I can use some TeX trickery (maybe from the diminuendo =20=
> trick from the showcase, or crescendo) to display them
>
> G
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] LaTeX Books
From: "Alain Schremmer"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:29:58 -0400
Paulo Ferreira wrote:
>> Paulo Ferreira wrote:
>>
>>> BUT, there is a box called "The LaTeX Companions, Revised Set" that =
has
>>> both books plus "The LaTeX Graphics Companion" and "The Latex Web
>>> Companion",
>>> in a total of four LaTeX books.
>>
>>
>> I have "both books" and I do all my graphics in Intaglio, save them
>> as pdf and "include" them. Am I missing something and should I buy
>> "The LaTeX Graphics Companion"?
>>
>> Thanks and regards
>> --schremmer
>
>
> Perhaps not.
>
> It depends on what kind of graphics you do, and if there is already a
> package
> of doing that kind of graphics.
> "The LaTeX Graphics Companion" is focused im "making graphics" using
> Tex and Postscript.
>
> You can see the table of contents at:
I did and I think that you are right but perhaps not for the reason you
might have thought of. /My/ reason is that XYPIC, PSTricks, and METAPOST
put the fear of the gods into me. Maybe, one day I will though. But, if
you would, could you point me toward an explanation of the pro and con
of doing graphics "within" LaTeX. The only drawback I can see to doing
graphic "without" and using "include" as I am doing is having figures in
dozens of separate pdf files which might complicate downloads. On the
other hand, if there were a converter from one of Intaglio's output
formats to LaTeX, /that/ would be /very/ nice to use at the end.
Thanks again.
--schremmer
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] LaTeX Books
From: "Alain Schremmer"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:38:23 -0400
Luis Sequeira wrote:
>> Paulo Ferreira wrote:
>>
>>> BUT, there is a box called "The LaTeX Companions, Revised Set" that h=
as
>>> both books plus "The LaTeX Graphics Companion" and "The Latex Web
>>> Companion",
>>> in a total of four LaTeX books.
>>
>>
>> I have "both books" and I do all my graphics in Intaglio, save them as
>> pdf and "include" them. Am I missing something and should I buy "The
>> LaTeX Graphics Companion"?
>>
>> Thanks and regards
>> --schremmer
>
>
> There is no problem with your workflow. However, some people do prefer=20
> to deal with some, or most, graphics from within LaTeX, using tools=20
> like pstricks, xy-pic, metapost. I write lots of graphics for my=20
> teaching work and use pstricks and related packages for precise=20
> mathematical drawing (and perfect integration with LaTeX - think fonts=20
> in graphics labels, for instance).=20
Yes, I noticed I had to fudge a bit here even to accomodate my very=20
modest typographical standards. Also, it is not always easy to maintain=20
consistency over time in dozens of Intaglio files. I can see that,=20
"within" LaTeX, I would be able to find-replace parts of the code.
> I wouldn't trade that for anything else. I own a copy "The LaTeX=20
> Graphics Companion", which has a whole chapter on pstricks, but I rely=20
> mostly on the pstricks manual, which, as a matter of fact, is included=20
> in Gerben's distribution, so is there already on my (and on your) mac.
Thanks. I will look up the manual=97if I can find it.
Regards
--schremmer
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeX to word on Mac
From: "Bob Kerstetter"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:15:06 -0500
Correct. The file to convert is the source TeX or LaTaX file.
On Jun 24, 2005, at 5:14 AM, George Ghio wrote:
> I may be slow but I will get there. The file to convert is the
> "source" file not the "output"(PDF) file?
>
> And thank you for putting up with my ignorance.
>
> George L Ghio
>
> On 24/06/2005, at 3:11 AM, Bob Kerstetter wrote:
>
>
>>
>> On Jun 23, 2005, at 9:27 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Am 23.06.2005 um 15:45 schrieb George Ghio:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> htlatex filename
>>>>
>>>> Too easy, just one question. Which file am I converting?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> LaTeX -> HTML
>>>
>>
>> when filename is the name of your file it does some thing like
>> this, i think:
>>
>> filename.tex ---> filename.dvi ---> filename.html
>>
>>
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] problem with context/m-ch-en.sty
From: "Jan Anderssen"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:17:17 -0400
>> \ch@ck ...\else \errmessage {No room for a new #3}
>> \fi
>> l.352 \newdimen\!!widtha \newdimen\!!heighta
>> \newdimen\!!deptha
>> ?
>
> It seems that one of your packages needs pictex, which is known to
> use a huge amount of dimension registers.
A while back there was a latex related discussion about memoir and
qtree together running out of skip registers.
One solution pointed out was to load the etex package, which
apparently increases a bunch of registers (depends on you having a
etex based engine though).
I have no idea whether that works with context. Just a thought.
jan
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop/PdfTeX output resolution at 2400 dpi
From: "Axel E. Retif"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:14:26 -0500
El 6/24/05 8:11 AM, "Herbert Schulz" escribi=F3:
> On Jun 24, 2005, at 7:54 AM, ITS Mail wrote:
>=20
>> Hello all,
>>=20
>> I need to make sure that the resolution of my final PDF is at least
>> 2400
>> dpi to send to a printing house. What is the best way to check and
>> customise this using TeXShop/teTeX? I have not been able to find an
>> answer to this browsing the web, and I would really appreciate your
>> advice before meddling with any configuration files. I am using PdfTeX
>> as TeXShop's default.
>>=20
>> Muchas gracias in advance!
>> Salvete,
>> Juan
>=20
> Howdy,
>=20
> If you're talking about fonts you shouldn't have any problems since
> the standard fonts used now are Postscript Type 1 which are not bit
> mapped so they look good at any resolution.
And for PK fonts you can do the following:
in Terminal.app
sudo texconfig
your password, and then when ``press return to continue...''
This takes you to the TeX setup utility. Now choose
MODE default metafont mode and resolution
This now takes you to a list of printers. Choose one with the resolution yo=
u
want. For me, the best is
linotzzh Linotype Linotronic 300 (2540dpi)
And then exit the setup utility.
Best regards,
Axel
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop/PdfTeX output resolution at 2400 dpi
From: "Josep M.Font"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 22:31:38 +0200
El 24 jun 2005, a las 21:14, Axel E. Retif escribi=F3:
> El 6/24/05 8:11 AM, "Herbert Schulz" =
escribi=F3:
>
>> On Jun 24, 2005, at 7:54 AM, ITS Mail wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I need to make sure that the resolution of my final PDF is at least
>>> 2400 dpi to send to a printing house. What is the best way to check=20=
>>> and
>>> customise this using TeXShop/teTeX? I have not been able to find an
>>> answer to this browsing the web, and I would really appreciate your
>>> advice before meddling with any configuration files. I am using=20
>>> PdfTeX
>>> as TeXShop's default.
>>
>> If you're talking about fonts you shouldn't have any problems since
>> the standard fonts used now are Postscript Type 1 which are not bit
>> mapped so they look good at any resolution.
>
> And for PK fonts [...]
A related question: If I am using the standard GW TeX distribution=20
along with TeXShop, and not using any font-related package --or using=20
"mathpazo" together with "courier" and "helvet"--, how do I know which=20=
kind of fonts I am using ?
JMaF
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop/PdfTeX output resolution at 2400 dpi
From: "Aaron Jackson"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:38:54 -0400
On Jun 24, 2005, at 4:31 PM, Josep M.Font wrote:
> El 24 jun 2005, a las 21:14, Axel E. Retif escribi=F3:
>
>> El 6/24/05 8:11 AM, "Herbert Schulz" =20
>> escribi=F3:
>>
>>> On Jun 24, 2005, at 7:54 AM, ITS Mail wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> I need to make sure that the resolution of my final PDF is at least
>>>> 2400 dpi to send to a printing house. What is the best way to check=20=
>>>> and
>>>> customise this using TeXShop/teTeX? I have not been able to find an
>>>> answer to this browsing the web, and I would really appreciate your
>>>> advice before meddling with any configuration files. I am using=20
>>>> PdfTeX
>>>> as TeXShop's default.
>>>
>>> If you're talking about fonts you shouldn't have any problems since
>>> the standard fonts used now are Postscript Type 1 which are not bit
>>> mapped so they look good at any resolution.
>>
>> And for PK fonts [...]
>
> A related question: If I am using the standard GW TeX distribution=20
> along with TeXShop, and not using any font-related package --or using=20=
> "mathpazo" together with "courier" and "helvet"--, how do I know which=20=
> kind of fonts I am using ?
The log file or console output will tell you what type of fonts are=20
being used. However, unless something is wrong, pdflatex will always=20
use the postscript version of any font before the bit mapped version=20
including "mathpazo", "courier"and "helvet".
Aaron
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Printing wrong from Acrobat, right from TeXShop
From: "Peter Dyballa"
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 00:33:48 +0200
Am 24.06.2005 um 16:45 schrieb Josep M.Font:
> but will try to install this WebJetAdmin (although I am not very
> optimistic about it, because the printer lives in a network where
> other Windows-based machines also live...).
>
That's splendid! WebJetAdmin needs to be taught into which networks to
look, and it needs access to them via SNMP (the Simple Network
Management Protocol). You can teach it to scan the subnets once in a
week or month. With WebJetAdmin its own minimalist Web server is
installed that you access on a dedicated port to watch the paper leave
the tray and manage the printers in a browser. Sometimes the printers
are protected by some password against remote setup ... (WebJetAdmin
too samples SNMP information about the PCs and Macs! Be surprised.)
--
Greetings
Pete
Without vi there is only GNU Emacs
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop/PdfTeX output resolution at 2400 dpi
From: "Bruno Voisin"
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 01:31:49 +0200
Le 24 juin 05 =E0 22:38, Aaron Jackson a =E9crit :
> On Jun 24, 2005, at 4:31 PM, Josep M.Font wrote:
>
>> A related question: If I am using the standard GW TeX distribution =20=
>> along with TeXShop, and not using any font-related package --or =20
>> using "mathpazo" together with "courier" and "helvet"--, how do I =20
>> know which kind of fonts I am using ?
>
> The log file or console output will tell you what type of fonts are =20=
> being used. However, unless something is wrong, pdflatex will =20
> always use the postscript version of any font before the bit mapped =20=
> version including "mathpazo", "courier"and "helvet".
mathpazo is Palatino as serif font, plus a combinaison of Palatino, =20
Symbol and Computer Modern (through virtual fonts) for maths. As for =20
how to know which font is included, you can look at the end of the =20
console window, as just said. Or you can open the PDF file in Adobe =20
Reader, and look at the Fonts tab in the document properties: outline =20=
fonts should be characterized as PostScript Type 1 or TrueType fonts, =20=
and bitmap fonts as PostScript Type 3 IIRC; I don't know how OpenType =20=
fonts are characterized.
Whether bitmaps or outlines are preferred for fonts is set at the =20
updmap level: for example, on my setup /usr/local/teTeX/share/=20
texmf.local/web2c/updmap.cf contains
# Valid settings for dvipsPreferOutline are true / false:
dvipsPreferOutline true
I don't know whether this setting affects pdfTeX as well. I would =20
assume yes, but the name seems to say no.
Bruno Voisin
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