Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!snorkelwacker!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!unido!sbsvax!wolf From: wolf@fb14vax.sbsvax.uucp (Wolfgang Huwig) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Picturewindows in TeX Message-ID: Date: 12 Sep 90 16:20:21 GMT References: <1990Sep8.074539.25886@lth.se> Sender: news@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de Organization: Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, West Germany. Lines: 58 In-reply-to: d89mb@efd.lth.se's message of 8 Sep 90 07:45:39 GMT In article <1990Sep8.074539.25886@lth.se> d89mb@efd.lth.se (Magnus Bodin) writes: I know that I've asked before, but I didn't get any resonable answers... Question: How to manag ``windows'' in ordinary TeX? [...] Is there anyone that have routines for this? (I do not read TUGBoat, so if you've got access to TUGBoat #2/Vol 8, it is supposed to contain such routines. Is it ftp-able? Or from a mail-server? Or by any chance photocopied by a kind person and sent to me? Magnus Bodin Institute of Tychology Box 5127 S-220 05 Lund SWEDEN Seems as if you didn't get any reasonable answer this time, too. Your message is a few days old and I didn't see any reply to it in this group. I've seen a collection of line-oriented macros, which are able to create paragraphs with windows in it, using \parshape. Perhaps they are able to make columns with windows, I don't know. The macros are in the book 'TeX: applications, uses, methods', (M. Clark (ed.), published by Ellis Horwood), which is the proceedings of TeX 88 conference. There, I've found them in the appendix of Alan Hoenig's article about line-oriented typesetting in TeX. I also found a notice, that these and some of the other macros published in the book are collected at the UK TeX Archive. As I'm very interested in the window macros, I tried to ftp tex.aston.ac.uk on Internet, but no chance, I always got a 'hostname lookup failure' message. PLEASE, can anyone give some advise how to reach the Aston archive? (the correct name, if the above is false, or its IP) Oh, why didn't I buy the book in our university book store? Because it's too expensive (at least for me, I'm just a poor student :-) I remember that it caused a discussion about expensive books in this group, a few weeks ago. A related question: is it strictly impossible to use such window macros, e.g. to integrate some graphics in a text, together with LaTeX, i.e. do they cause some trouble which I can't avoid by integrating them carefully? I know, p.204 LaTeX Book: "For example, don't use a Plain TeX command such as \hangindent that modifies TeX's paragraph-making parameters inside one of LaTeX's list-making environments." But I've hacked an environment which accepts a paragraph and an Encapsulated PostScript Picture as a figure. It seems to work, if one accepts some restrictions. To have some more powerfull window macros run with LaTeX is quite interesting, at least for me and some other guys here. Greetings Wolfgang Wolfgang Huwig Computer Science/AI-Lab University of Saarbruecken Germany Internet: wolf@cs.uni-sb.de