From: owner-UKTeX@nottingham.ac.uk To: UKTeX Distribution: ; Subject: UKTeX Digest V94 #46 Reply-To: UKTeX@tex.ac.uk Errors-To: owner-UKTeX@nottingham.ac.uk Distribution: world MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <647.786996692.1@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 09 Dec 1994 18:11:33 +0000 Message-ID: <648.786996693@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk UKTeX Digest Friday, 9 Dec 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 46 Today's Topics: re: Parskip into footnotes Wanted: New members for UK TeX Users Group Administrivia: Moderators: Peter Abbott (UK TeX Users Group) and David Osborne (University of Nottingham) Contributions: UKTeX@tex.ac.uk Subscription and unsubscription requests: UKTeX-request@tex.ac.uk (message body = "subscribe uktex" or "unsubscribe uktex", [no quotes]) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 03 Dec 1994 09:49:41 -0400 From: Jerry Leichter Subject: re: Parskip into footnotes Thomas Sippel writes: I am getting increasingly allergic to paragraph indents in text that is broken up with many display items, such as technical documentation. The parskip package gets rid of most of these, but footnotes still come a paragraph indent and no paragraph separation space - grrr Does anybody have a style file that addresses this ? The parskip package is new to me. However, assuming it does the trick for all other cases of concern, it's easy to change the way paragraphing is done in footnotes. A footnote is typeset by the \@makefntext command. This command is defined by the style file; it will be called in an enviroment where \@parboxrestore has been called, so among other things both \parskip and \parindent have been reset to 0 pt. Obligatory typesetting point: The way paragraphs are marked is inherently part of the definition of the style. They are intentionally not settable parameters of the standard styles. Once you start changing them, you are designing your own style. Feel free, but be aware that you (a) will be dealing with the *internals* of the style files; (b) are on your own as far as typographical quality. Warning aside, here's the definition of \@makefntext that appears in the three standard LaTeX styles (article, book, and report): \long\def\@makefntext#1{\parindent 1em\noindent \hbox to 1.8em{\hss$^{\@thefnmark}$}#1} If you simple change this to leave \parindent alone, and instead change \parskip, you should get the effect you want. The best way to do this would be in a style file - just put exactly the editted text in your own "fnparskip.sty" file, or add it to the end of the parskip.sty file you have now. For simple testing, you can also place this definition in your document preamble. In that case, put \makeatletter before it and \makeatother after. -- Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Dec 1994 09:33:00 +0000 From: Jonathan Fine Subject: Wanted: New members for UK TeX Users Group There are many good reasons for joining the UK TeX Users Group. Here are two good reasons for joining before the end of the year. The first is that you will receive the last of issue of Baskerville of 1994, which is devoted entirely to answering the 99 most frequently answered questions about TeX. The second is that out of gratitude for your promptness, you will save two pounds (out of twenty). And of course you will get the 6 issues of Baskerville scheduled for 1995. And there's another reason for joining now. Early next year there will be an important meeting: Portable Documents: Acrobat, SGML and TeX Bridewell Theatre, off Fleet Street, London January 19th 1995, 10am to 5pm cosponsored by the BCS Electronic Publishing Special Group. Members of UKTUG (and BCS-EPSG) pay only forty pounds (saving ten) if they book early. The moral of this message is to act now. Contact me and I'll put the details and forms into the Royal Mail to you. If you give me the name and address of someone who you think might be interested, I'll send them to that person also. 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But then again, I am: Jonathan Fine Publicity Officer UK TeX Users Group Mailing Address: 203 Coldhams Lane, Cambridge, CB1 3HY Email: J.Fine@pmms.cam.ac.uk ------------------------------ UK TeX Archive >>> tex.ac.uk <<< Part of the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) tex.ac.uk -- mail [user@tex.ac.uk] ftp.tex.ac.uk -- anonymous ftp [username: anonymous, password: ] gopher.tex.ac.uk -- Gopher access www.tex.ac.uk -- World-Wide Web access [URL http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive] nfs.tex.ac.uk -- NFS access [nfs.tex.ac.uk:/public/ctan/tex-archive] \section Files of Interest tex-archive/00Contents tex-archive/CTAN.sites tex-archive/FILES.bydate tex-archive/FILES.byname tex-archive/FILES.bysize tex-archive/MAP tex-archive/README.archive-features tex-archive/README.site-commands tex-archive/README.uploads \section Digests This year's UKTeX back issues are stored in the archive in directory tex-archive/digests/uktex/94 This year's TeXhax back issues are stored in the archive in directory tex-archive/digests/texhax/94 Latest TeXhax: V94 #10 \section TeX Implementations for Small Computers \subsection PC and Mac disks From January 1994 the UK TeX Users' Group is distributing an emTeX kit for PCs, and an OzTeX kit for Macintosh. 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