From: texhax-request@tex.ac.uk Subject: TeXhax digest, Vol 2003 #3 - 5 msgs Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:45:09 +0000 Send TeXhax mailing list submissions to texhax@tex.ac.uk To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/texhax or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to texhax-request@tex.ac.uk You can reach the person managing the list at texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of TeXhax digest..." TeXhax Digest ________________________________________ Volume 2003 : Number 3 Today's Topics: 1. Re: case conversion (Robin Fairbairns) 2. Re: case conversion (William Adams) 3. March 2003 TUG news: 501(c)(3), election, annual conference, TUGboat (TUG board of directors) 4. re-defining table (Michal Kaut) 5. TUGboat 23-1 shipped today (Mimi Burbank) --__--__-- Message: 1 To: Michal Kaut cc: texhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: Re: case conversion Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 16:38:08 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns > Does there exist any LaTeX macro/package for converting text to > upper- or lower-case? > What I need is a macros \uppercase{} and \lowercase{} there are primitives with those names. they're not very satisfying in some cases (e.g., \uppercase won't convert \oe to \OE). the corresponding latex macros are \MakeUppercase and \MakeLowercase; these deal with issues like \oe<->\OE. david carlisle's textcase package adds various improvements (doesn't change case of maths for example). robin fairbairns http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq --__--__-- Message: 2 Organization: Atlis Systems, Inc. (301) 578-4200 info@atlis.com Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:05:45 -0500 Subject: Re: case conversion To: Michal Kaut From: William Adams Michal asked: > Does there exist any LaTeX macro/package for converting text to > upper- or lower-case? > What I need is a macros \uppercase{} and \lowercase{} Googling for ``latex macro uppercase lowercase'' the ``I feel Lucky'' hit is: http://www.it.ms.unimelb.edu.au/tex/help/faq/uktug-faq/texfaq_15.html which has the following text: ``LaTeX provides commands \MakeUppercase and \MakeLowercase which fixes the latter problem. These commands are used in the standard classes to produce upper case running heads for chapters and sections.'' and explains its failings / weaknesses. A more robust solution would be to use Omega and OTPs William -- William Adams, publishing specialist voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708 www.atlis.com --__--__-- Message: 3 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 15:52:16 +0100 From: board@tug.org (TUG board of directors) To: texhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: March 2003 TUG news: 501(c)(3), election, annual conference, TUGboat Dear TeX user, A few notable news items from the TeX Users Group. 1) TUG GOES CHARITABLE! Our first news item has been in the works for many years: TUG has finally achieved full tax-exempt charitable status in the USA, known as 501(c)(3). This means that membership dues (less value of received benefits) and additional contributions to TUG are now tax-deductible, with the usual limitations and exceptions. Fine print on our web site and at the bottom of this email. Donations are happily accepted via the membership form :). We will be sending a separate email to all affected TUG members explaining the details and in a form suitable for tax documentation Kudos to our president, Mimi Jett, our office manager Robin Laakso, our lawyer Amy Silliman, and many others for bringing this to fruition. More information at http://tug.org/tax-exempt. 2) TUG ELECTION RESULTS: One nomination was received for president: Karl Berry. The following nominations were received for the TUG board: Barbara Beeton, Cheryl Ponchin, Kaja Christiansen, Phil Taylor, Ross Moore, Samuel Rhoads, Stephanie Hogue, Sue DeMeritt. (In addition, Arthur Ogawa and Mike Sofka are continuing board members, whose terms expire in 2005.) Since there were fewer nominations than board positions, and only one candidate for president, there will be no actual ballot this year. The election results take effect after the 2003 annual meeting. Candidates' statements and other info at http://tug.org/election/2003/results.html. We'd especially like to welcome our new board member, Sam Rhoads. 3) TUG 2003 CONFERENCE: The Silver Anniversary -- 25 years!-- of TeX The TeX Users Group 24th Annual Meeting and Conference is scheduled for July 20-24, 2003 at the Outrigger Waikoloa Beach Resort, Big Island, Hawaii. See http://tug.org/tug2003. Register by April 19th for special hotel rates: http://tug.org/tug2003/accommodation.html For sharing accommodations: http://tug.org/tug2003/sharing.html. Group travel discount rates may be available for flights via major US Gateways across the USA, if travel is booked with Protravel International Inc., agent Gina Robles . 3a) BEGINNING/INTERMEDIATE CLASS on LaTeX: will take place just before the conference, from July 15-18 at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Enrollment is limited to 12. The cost is $275 ($300 after April 1, so register now!). See https://www.tug.org/tug2003/latexclass.html for more information and the registration form. If you have any questions about the class, please email Sue Demeritt at susan.demeritt@tug.org. 4) TUGboat Volume 22 Issue 3 (Sep 2001) was mailed around February 14. If you were a TUG member in 2001 and haven't received your copy, please let the office know (office@tug.org), so we can send you a copy right away :). 23(1), the proceedings for TUG 2002, will be the next issue mailed. 22(4), the last issue for the 2001 membership year, is also in process. Back issues of TUGboat are available from the TUG office. For reference, this newsletter is available online at http://tug.org/news/2003/03.txt. Respectfully submitted, the TUG board (board@tug.org) Postscript: here is the full text from our lawyer for the tax-exempt announcement. TUG has achieved tax-exempt charitable status in the United States, meaning that it is now a 501(c)(3) organization. This means that membership payments and additional contributions will now qualify for income tax charitable deduction, subject to certain limitations regarding the value of your membership benefits and materials. Please see http://tug.org/tax-exempt/ for details. --__--__-- Message: 4 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:48:58 +0100 From: Michal Kaut Organization: Molde College university To: texhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: re-defining table Hello, I use the convention that table has caption at the top, so I would like to change the spacing. Hence I would like to redefine table so that it includes lines: \setlength{\abovecaptionskip}{0pt} \setlength{\belowcaptionskip}{10pt} I tried: \renewcommand{table}[1]{% \begin{table}[#1] \setlength{\abovecaptionskip}{0pt} \setlength{\belowcaptionskip}{10pt} }{\end{table}} but it (kind of obviously) leads to a circular reference. I there any way to add the to lines to the current format of table? I do not want to re-define the table, since I may use packages that change it as well. I just want to add the two lines. I know that I can either create a new command \topcaption, that will do the formatting, or define a new environment mytable (which would avoid the circular reference). Yet I would like to do it in a way that the user (author) can use the standard commands. Is there a (simple) way to do it? Thank you very much! Best regards, Michal Kaut -------------------------------------------------------------- Michal Kaut Molde University College Postboks 2110, N-6402 Molde, Norway tel. +47 712 14 243, fax +47 712 14 100 michal.kaut@iot.ntnu.no, http://www.iot.ntnu.no/~mkaut/ -------------------------------------------------------------- --__--__-- Message: 5 Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:01:01 -0500 To: TUGboat announcement , tub-prod@csit.fsu.edu, office@tug.org, texhax@tex.ac.uk, tex-eds@nic.surfnet.nl, tug-pub@tug.org Subject: TUGboat 23-1 shipped today From: Mimi Burbank Hello everyone, The Proceedings of the TUG 2002 annual meeting were shipped to the printer today. Hopefully shipment to members will occur in two weeks or so... The contents are enclosed for your perusal: Mimi Burbank (for the TUGboat production team) ----------------------------------------------------------- TUGboat Volume 23, Number 1 2002 ======================================== Kaja Christiansen Editorial Comments 2 TUG 2002, Thiruvananthapuram --- Report and travelogue 3 TUG 2002 Program 8 Participants at the 23rd Annual TUG Meeting 10 Talks K. Anil Kumar TeX and databases ---TeX DBI 13 Satish Babu New horizons of free software: An Indian perspective 17 Gyongyi Bujdoso and Ferenc Wettl On the localization of TeX in Hungary 21 Wlodzimierz Bzyl The Tao of fonts 27 Behdad Esfahbod and Roozbeh Pournader FarsiTeX and the Iranian TeX community 41 Hong Feng The marriage of TeX and Lojban 46 Keynote Hans Hagen ConTeXt, XML and TeX: State of the art? 49 Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice Low-level Devanagari support for Omega --- Adapting devnag 50 David Kastrup Revisiting WYSIWYG paradigms for authoring LaTeX 57 Ross Moore serendiPDF with searchable math-fields in PDF documents 65 Karel Piska A conversion of public Indic fonts from MF into Type 1 format with TeXtrace 70 Fabrice Popineau TeXLive under Windows: What's new with the 7 edition? 74 Roozbeh Pournader Catching up to Unicode 80 Sebastian Rahtz PassiveTeX: An update 86 S. Rajkumar Indic typesetting --- Challenges and opportunities 90 Denis Roegel METAOBJ: Very high-level objects in MP 93 Wagish Shukla and Amitabh Trehan Typesetting in Hindi, Sanskrit and Persian: A beginner's perspective 101 Karel Skoupy New typesetting language and system architecture 106 Karel Skoupy TeX file server 107 Stephen M. Watt Conserving implicit mathematical semantics in conversion between TeX and MathML 108 News & Announcements Calendar 109 TUG Business Institutional members 110 Advertisements TeX consulting and production services 111 Just Published: TeX Reference Manual by David Bausum 112 Blue Sky Research cover3 ----------------------------------------------- --__--__-- About TeXhax... For information on the TeX Users Group, please send a message to office@tug.org, or write TeX Users Group, 1466 NW Front Avenue, Suite 3141, Portland, OR 97209-2820 USA (phone: 1 503 223 9994, fax: 1 503 223 3960). End of TeXhax Digest