[texhax] Translating into math-like symbols

[William Adams]

On Apr 23, 2006, at 6:03 PM, WILLIAM D MARKEL wrote:

> OK, I joined TUG and got the disks.  Everything is installed.  What  
> I want to be able to do is translate stuff like what follows into  
> something resembling math.  So far, I haven't a clue about how to  
> do this.
>
> % This file was created by EXP Version 5.1.

The pointers to the beginner's pointers on www.tug.org are a good  
start. Short version is put this in your favourite .tex enabled  
editor and press the ``LaTeX'' button.

One thing which may not be covered there is that you'll need to  
import the support for this old Brooks-Cole editing system:

> \usepackage{exptex}
> \usepackage{expthmi}

So you'll need to track down the files

exptex.sty
expthmi.sty

with the appropriate extension  (I don't think they were ever done  
in .dtx (documented tex) format).

Here's one copy:

http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/VOL6/Kimberling/exptex.sty
http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/VOL6/Kimberling/expthmi.sty

A useful technique I've found is to copy the generic part of an error  
message out of the log and paste it into a search on a decent search  
engine (those which cover usenet:comp.text.tex like groups.google.com  
are especially helpful).

William

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William Adams
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Fry Communications



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