*********************************************************************** Question 1: Could you please send the information regarding importing encapsulated postscript (*.eps) files (figures) into your *.tex and *.sty (asme.tex or asme.sty) provided. What should be the command I should add to the file and in which file, in *.sty or *.tex. Usually I add \input epsf in my *.tex file. Please let me know this way of importing the figure is acceptable. Answer: You may use the 'epsfig' package to incorporate an encapsulated postscript figure into your document. To include the package in LaTeX2e, use "\usepackage{epsfig}" in the preamble of your document. Use "\epsfig{file=file.eps}" to incorporate the eps file in the figure environment. You may use width and/or height arguments to change the size of the original figure, e.g. "\epsfig{file=file.eps,width=3in}." If you are using LaTeX 2.09, use "\input{psfig}" in the preamble and use "\psfig{figure=file.eps}" to include the eps file. The height and width arguments are the same. Note: the argument for \epsfig{} and \psfig{} starts with "file=" and "figure=", respectively. *********************************************************************** Question 2: I am current preparing a paper to be submitted in an ASME conference. There is a problem we are not able to solve. The problem is the display of lower case Greek bold face font. Normally, the command \mbox{\boldmath${ .... }$\unboldmath} will do it. However, using the ASME template, this command seem not function. I wonder if you had come across this problem before and would share you experience with us. Answer: In LaTeX2e, use the \mathbf{} command to make a bold math character. If that doesn't work, you will have to use an ams-LaTeX package. *********************************************************************** Question 3: How can I get bold italics? Answer: try \newcommand{\bAC}{\mbox{$\mathbf{AC}$}} You could also try \textbf{\emph AC} *********************************************************************** Question 4: I've been using your LaTeX2e asme2e.cls package to prepare a paper for an upcoming conference, but have been having some trouble with the fonts. I was wondering if I might be able to ask you for a bit of advice. It seems as if none of the headings, titles, etc, are showing up bold as they are supposed to. When I run LaTeX, I get the following... {co.eng.caltech.edu:7} latex paper.tex This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1) (paper.tex LaTeX2e <1994/12/01> patch level 1 (asme2e.cls Document Class: asme2e 1997/04/10 v1.0 Standard LaTeX document class (/ccovol/tex3/tex/latex/base/ifthen.sty) (/ccovol/tex3/tex/latex/packages/psnfss/times.sty) (/ccovol/tex3/tex/latex/packages/psnfss/mathptm.sty) (/ccovol/tex3/tex/latex/packages/psnfss/pifont.sty No file Upzd.fd. LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `U/pzd/m/n ' undefined (Font) using `U/cmr/m/n' instead on input line 57. No file Upsy.fd. LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `U/psy/m/n ' undefined (Font) using `U/cmr/m/n' instead on input line 58. ...and so on. I noticed in the README2 file that there were some issues pertaining to fonts. Apparently I need to make sure that a new font package (PSNFSS) is installed. Does LaTeX's call to (/ccovol/tex3/tex/latex/packages/psnfss/times.sty) imply that the sysadmins here have already done this? In any case, I tried to find the font packages at http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/psnfss/ but that address appears to have expired. If it is just a matter of installing these fonts, do you know of a new address where I can get them? And if it doesn't seem to be just a problem of installing these fonts, do you have any ideas as to what might be wrong? Answer: The problem is the "pifont.sty" package uses the "Upzd.fd" and the "Upsy.fd" font description files, which are missing in your installation of psnfss. A quick fix is to download the missing files from CTAN. Point your browser to http://www.ctan.org and click on the search link to search for the two files. Download them to the same directory as your paper and rerun LaTeX2e. You should ask your system administrators to install psnfss with the proper font description files. *********************************************************************** Question 5: How do you use .jgp and .png images as figures in LaTex when using PDF Texify? Answer by Adam Pautsch at agpautsch@wisc.edu: To include images, you must load the package "graphicx" in the preamble of the document. With the image file in the same folder as the .tex file, use the line "\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,width=3in]{filename.jgp}" to insert the image file. This may be included inside of a "figure" environment, which will allow for automatic captioning with the "\caption{}" command. The images included in this manner will only appear when the "draft" option is not used. When "draft" is used as an option, a box represnting an image with the image's filename will appear in its place. More information about handling images of different formats may be found at http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dvipsgraphics http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=pdftexgraphics *********************************************************************** Question 6: Question: How to make the first letter of each word in the title capital? Answer: Put the capital letter in each word inside a pair of braces such as {T}his {I}s {A} {T}itle in asme2e.bib *********************************************************************** Question 7: Question: The margins of the generated PDF file in my system is different from asme2e.pdf, how can I fix this problem? Answer: Change one or some of default values for the "page layout" in file asme2e.cls. \setlength{\paperheight}{11in} \setlength{\paperwidth}{8.5in} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{48pt} \setlength{\evensidemargin}{48pt} \ifpdf% \setlength{\topmargin}{1.3in}% use 1.3in top margin for pdflatex \else \setlength{\topmargin}{2.0in}% use 2.0in top marging for latex \fi \setlength{\marginparwidth}{0pt} \setlength{\marginparsep}{11pt} ... *********************************************************************** Question 8: Question: I cannot figure out how to get a bulleted list. Using the standard: \begin{itemize} \item ... \end{itemize} It produces a list with no bullets. Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong? Answer: There are two ways to fix this: 1) Use \begin{itemize} \item[\textbullet] First item \item[\textbullet] Second item \end{itemize} 2) Add \newcommand\labelitemi{\textbullet} to the file after \documentclass[...]{asme2e} *********************************************************************** Question 9: Question: I kept having the following messages Warning: font "psyro" ("psyro") not in font dictionary Warning: font "psyr" ("psyr") not in font dictionary when I use Scientific Word 3.5 to compile and preview. These fonts are installed. How do I fix this problem? Answer: (by Jian-Qiao Sun, University of California, Merced, jqsun@ucmerced.edu): Comment out the following two lines in asme2e.cls. \RequirePackage{times} % Loads the Times-Roman Fonts \RequirePackage{mathptmx} % Loads the Times-Roman Math Fonts *********************************************************************** Question 10: Question: How can I include figures in .png, .eps in the file? Answer: (by Kevin Gucwa, University of California, Davis, kgucwa@ucdavis.edu): First when compiling with latex, as the Makefile does currently, it is looking for eps figures which specify a bounding box for the image. You can create eps files out of jpg/png/bmp with gimp if you want to. After that using \usepackage{graphicx} in your preamble and \includegraphics[width=]{image_name} will work. The second option if you want to include jpg/png/bmp/etc images directly, you need to switch to pdflatex which knows how to handle them correctly. For this to work, the Makefile will need to be changed to use pdflatex instead of latex and remove lines 7&8 (dvips and ps2pdf) since pdlatex outputs directly to pdf. Then within your .tex file the same \usepackage{graphicx} and \includegraphics have to be used. Either of these ways should get you to a working pdf file with images.