Article 93 of ucam.mlist.texhax:
From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.UK (TeXhax Digest)
Subject: TeXhax Digest V1999 #5
Date: 6 May 1999 13:14:43 GMT

TeXhax Digest         Thursday, May 6 1999         Volume 1999 : Number 005

(incorporating UKTeX Digest)

Today's Topics:

    [none]
    Bug in LaTeX/Tex?
    announce: TeX directory structure (tds) 0.9996 available
    TUGboat 20(1) shipped to Cadmus this date
    Ease of use

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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 20:59:12 -0500
From: Hilmar Schlegel <hshlgaii@mailszrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
Subject: [none]

> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:06:33 +0100 (BST)
> From: nxd@hrwallingford.co.uk
> Subject: Graphics in LaTeX
>
> Hi
>
> I want to include graphics files like JPEG, TIF and GIF files
> in a LaTeX document, without converting the damn things to
> PostScript (when I do this they become simply enormous).

It is the best way to convert any graphics formats to EPS before
inclusion: this is exact and most conservative, while permitting a clean
handling of ASCII data. Unless there are special needs due to printer
drivers which have their own (hardware-specific) way to deal with a
restricted collection of image formats, the EPS as canonical format is
optimal.

A previewer which is clever and useful is able to show a TIFF, JPEG or
whatever bitmap file which is stored under the same name like the EPS.
Scalable previews (for vector images of course) are only possible in WMF
format, which moreover cannot be separated from the EPSF (thus becoming
a binary file).

> Does anyone know of any packages that allow me to use raw
> JPEG/GIF/TIF files within LaTeX documents?

Use jpeg2ps from Thomas Merz to include a JPEG unchanged (no
decompression & re-compression) into a PS level 2 EPS.
Imagemagic can deal with TIFF but this is indeed quite inefficent since
it doesn't provide the PS level 2 compressors LZW nor CCITT.

EPS files are not per se much bigger than the most compact bitmaps  but
this depends crucial on the software used. Rather a typical B/W EPS is
around half the size of the identical GIF at high res.
.
> Any help gratefully received.

Well, it is not exactly what you asked for - so milage will vary ;-)

> Thanks
>
> Nick Dodd
>
> ps. I am using the graphicx package at present; can this be used to
>     import JPEG files?

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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:40:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg Franks <greg@sce.carleton.ca>
Subject: Bug in LaTeX/Tex?

The following input file produces incorrect labels in the output
(incorrect values are written to the .aux file).  Note that the label
is on the line with \nonumber (which is the actual error).
Unfortunately, the .log file doesn't produce any error messages.  Is
this a TeX or LaTeX problem??????
  ..greg

- -------- 8< -------- 8< -------- 8< -------- 8< -------- 8< --------
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}

This a buggy eqnarray?

\begin{eqnarray}
  x & = & y \\
  u & = & v \nonumber\label{eqn:x}
\end{eqnarray}

\begin{eqnarray}
  a & = & b \\
  c & = & d \nonumber\label{eqn:a}
\end{eqnarray}

Equations~\ref{eqn:a} and \ref{eqn:b}...
\end{document}
- -------- 8< -------- 8< -------- 8< -------- 8< -------- 8< --------
This is TeX, Version 3.141 (C version d) (format=latex 97.8.26)  27 APR 1999
09:35
**&latex2e-hp \nonstopmode\input{test.tex}
(test.tex (/usr/local/share/tex/macros/article.cls
Document Class: article 1997/06/16 v1.3v Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/share/tex/macros/size10.clo
File: size10.clo 1997/06/16 v1.3v Standard LaTeX file (size option)
)
\c@part=\count79
\c@section=\count80
\c@subsection=\count81
\c@subsubsection=\count82
\c@paragraph=\count83
\c@subparagraph=\count84
\c@figure=\count85
\c@table=\count86
\abovecaptionskip=\skip41
\belowcaptionskip=\skip42
\bibindent=\dimen102
) (test.aux)
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OML/cmm/m/it on input line 17.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 17.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for T1/cmr/m/n on input line 17.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 17.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OT1/cmr/m/n on input line 17.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 17.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OMS/cmsy/m/n on input line 17.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 17.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OMX/cmex/m/n on input line 17.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 17.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for U/cmr/m/n on input line 17.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 17.
LaTeX Font Info:    External font `cmex10' loaded for size
(Font)              <7> on input line 21.
LaTeX Font Info:    External font `cmex10' loaded for size
(Font)              <5> on input line 21.

LaTeX Warning: Reference `eqn:b' on page 1 undefined on input line 31.

[1

] (test.aux)

LaTeX Warning: There were undefined references.

 )
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 216 strings out of 10944
 1986 string characters out of 73309
 43711 words of memory out of 262141
 3132 multiletter control sequences out of 9500
 3948 words of font info for 15 fonts, out of 100000 for 255
 14 hyphenation exceptions out of 607
 24i,6n,18p,144b,160s stack positions out of 300i,40n,60p,3000b,4000s

Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 540 bytes).
- -------- 8< -------- 8< -------- 8< -------- 8< -------- 8< --------
   __@            Greg Franks, (613) 520-5726         <|       _~@ __O
 _`\<,_    Systems Engineering, Carleton University,   |O\   -^\<;^\<,
(*)/ (*)       Ottawa, Ontario, Canada  K1S 5B6.       (*)--(*)%---/(*)
          "Where do you want to go today?"   Outside.

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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 15:47:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: tds@tug.org (TWG-TDS)
Subject: announce: TeX directory structure (tds) 0.9996 available

Another draft of the TeX Directory Structure (TDS) standards document
is (finally) available from:

    http://www.tug.org/tds/
    ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/tds.tar.gz
    ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/tds/

Soon it will be on CTAN as well, in the `tds' directory (list of CTAN
hosts appended).

This version merely makes it explicit that single-file packages of any
type can go in `misc' or a package directory, at the installer or
author's discretion.  Also fixes some grammatical errors.

Please send comments to tds@tug.org.  I will release this text as
version 1.0 if nothing adverse happens soon :).

Karl Berry, for the TDS working group, http://tug.org/twg/tds/

$ finger ctan
..
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Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 17:53:28 -0500 (EDT)
From: Mimi Burbank <mimi@scri.fsu.edu>
Subject: TUGboat 20(1) shipped to Cadmus this date

I am pleased to announce that I shipped the first 1999 issue of
TUGboat to Cadmus this date.  This issue will contain the TeX Live 4
CD.

Mimi Burbank
(for the TUGboat production team)

                            TUGboat
                  Volume 20, Number 1 /  March 199
                  ================================

Addresses                                                        3

General Delivery
   Kristoffer Rose
        From the Vice-President                                  5
   Barbara Beeton
        Editorial comments                                       6
 	New book by Don Knuth; eTeX news;
        Patent for style sheets in electronic publishing
              for Microsoft;
        New LaTeX Project Public License;
        New goodies on CTAN; Welcome to CervanTeX;
             Electronic TUGboat
   Jacques Andre
        Father Truchet, the typographic point,
        the Romain du roi, and tilings                          8

Language Support
   Sivan Toledo
        A simple technique for typesetting Hebrew
                with vowel points                               15

TeX Live CD-ROM
   Sebastian Rahtz
        The  TeX Live Guide, 4th edition                        20

Software & Tools
   Barbara Beeton
        TeX and the Year 2000                                   45
   Barbara Beeton
        Hyphenation Exception Log  Update                       50

LaTeX
   LaTeX project team
        LaTeX News, Issue 10, December 1998                     52

Hints & Tricks
   Christina Thiele
        The Treasure Chest: Package tours from CTAN
            paralist; acronym; epigraph; hanging                53

Abstracts
  Die TeXnische Komoedie 9 (1997, Heft 1--4)                    59

News & Announcements
        Calendar                                                65
        TUG'99 Announcement                                     67
        TUG'99 Poetry Contest                                    4

Late Breaking News
   Mimi Burbank
        Production notes                                        70
        TUGboat web pages                                       70
        Future issues                                           70

TUG Business
   Christina Thiele and Arthur Ogawa
        Report: TUG 1999 Election                               71
        Members of the TUG Board with terms ending in 2003
    	     Barbara Beeton; Karl Berry; Kaja Christiansen;
             Donald DeLand; Susan DeMeritt; Stephanie Hogue;
             Judy Johnson; Ross Moore; Cheryl Ponchin;
             Kristoffer H. Rose; Philip Taylor
        Position of President                                   76
             Mimi Jett

Institutional members                                           77

Forms
  TUG membership application                                    78

Advertisements
  TeX consulting and production services                        79
  Y&Y Inc.                                                      80
  Blue Sky Research                                             c3

                              ==============

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Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 06:10:47 EDT
From: Skelton000@aol.com
Subject: Ease of use

TeXhax:

How easy to use is TeX, REVTeX and LaTeX?
Thank you for your reply.

JBS

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