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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 19 Nov 01 Volume 18 : Issue 147
Today's Topics:
(Q) Calendar plugin for PageMaker 6.5?
[*] FileBuddy 6.1.5J - Japanese Version
[*] PacRead
[*] RPN Calculator 1.48 Carbon
[*] RPN Calculator 1.48 PPC
[*] X3 for Mac OS X version 0.1.0
[*] YP Mouvement Rectiligne 1.0 (french version of YP Rectilinear Motion)
[*] YP Rectilinear Motion 1.0 (learn kinematics with your Mac)
overbar and overdot
Overbar and overdot - answer
tiff reader enquiry
Titanium and video mirroring (A?)
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Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 08:20:57 -0800
From: Paul Brians
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: (Q) Calendar plugin for PageMaker 6.5?
Am I correct in thinking that there used to be a plugin or something
similar for PageMaker which could generate calendar pages for any
given year? My copy of PageMaker 6.5 doesn't seem to have that. Is
there anything free or very cheap out there that could do the job? I
won't to make a calendar featuring my own pictures without going to
all the labor of creating the pages full of dates in a grid.
--
Paul Brians, Department of English
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5020
brians@wsu.edu
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians
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Date: 17 Nov 2001
From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com
To:
Subject: [*] FileBuddy 6.1.5J - Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the FileBuddy package.
File Buddy is quite simply the most powerful and popular high-level file
utility available for your Macintosh.
File Buddy 6 requires a PowerPC-based Macintosh with System 7.6 or
later. File Buddy 5 is available for 68K Macintoshes. The latest Japanese
release of the carbon version of File Buddy (File Buddy 7)
can be downloaded from .
*View and edit a wide range of file and folder information in the info
window.
*Create droplet applications that automatically apply changes to items
dropped on them, including the contents of folders.
*Find files and folders using an extensive set of search criteria.
Enhance file searches with plug-ins that extend file search capabilities.
Conveniently perform a wide variety of actions on found items. Make File
Buddy your default file finding application using the File Buddy CP
control panel.
*Modify the names of multiple files at once. For example, remove ".txt"
from the names of a group of files.
*Much, much more...
Changes and fixes in this version:
Changes
*More criteria have been added to avoid searching files by content when
the files are known not to contain readable text.
Fixes
*A bug was introduced in 6.1.4 that keeps dates from appearing when
saving a text file of a file list. Fixed.
*Deleting a large number of items from a file list with expanded
folders in it could cause a crash. Fixed.
*A search for files on multiple volumes might only search the first
volume. Fixed.
[Archived as /info-mac/disk/file-buddy-615-jp.hqx; 1335 K]
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Date: 18 Nov 2001
From: Joe Hammons
To:
Subject: [*] PacRead
PacWord is an educational game for kids of all ages.
Play three games using a PacPerson to move around the screen. The
PacWord game helps with reading over 600 of the most used words in
English. Playing PacLetter will teach sentence reading and spelling
skills. Slingwords will teach over 500 "core" words. Requires text to
speech on System 7.6+
Shareware for $5.00.
Thanks.
Joe Hammons
[Archived as /info-mac/game/pac-read.hqx; 1430 K]
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Date: 19 Nov 2001
From: Jeffry Baker
To:
Subject: [*] RPN Calculator 1.48 Carbon
RPN Calculator is a mathematically robust RPN implementation for Macintosh
in two flavors: PPC and Carbon. V1.48 is essentially a final quality
program and is very reliable. Its features include:
25 element stack
8 memories
Full support for complex number math
Scalable user interface
Statistics
Systems of equations (up to 5 equations and 5 unknowns)
Prime number search
Factorization
Prime factorization
Rational approximation to decimal expansions
Base Conversion
Function library (user-defined functions)
Constants (user-defined constants)
Simple help system
This release is FULLY functional back to MacOS 8.1, unlike previous
releases.
[Archived as /info-mac/sci/calc/rpn-calculator-148-cbn.hqx; 1048 K]
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Date: 19 Nov 2001
From: Jeffry Baker
To:
Subject: [*] RPN Calculator 1.48 PPC
RPN Calculator is a mathematically robust RPN implementation for Macintosh
in two flavors: PPC and Carbon. V1.48 is essentially a final quality
program and is very reliable. Its features include:
25 element stack
8 memories
Full support for complex number math
Scalable user interface
Statistics
Systems of equations (up to 5 equations and 5 unknowns)
Prime number search
Factorization
Prime factorization
Rational approximation to decimal expansions
Base Conversion
Function library (user-defined functions)
Constants (user-defined constants)
Simple help system
This release is FULLY functional back to MacOS 8.1, unlike previous
releases.
[Archived as /info-mac/sci/calc/rpn-calculator-148-ppc.hqx; 928 K]
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Date: 18 Nov 2001
From: Jake Luck
To:
Subject: [*] X3 for Mac OS X version 0.1.0
X3 for Mac OS X has landed
X3 is an application that visualizes the system performance in the form of
a realtime rotating 3D-object in the Dock. It is designed to use very
little memory and processor cycles so you can keep it running all the
time.
page:
http://www.10k.org/jake/soft/soft.html
2001-11-17 0.1.0 * complete rewrite in Objective-C
* optimized 3D pipeline
* transparent background
* customizable color and CPU usage
* dynamic object selection
* vectorized data layout
enjoy
Jake
[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/x3-010.hqx; 76 K]
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Date: 19 Nov 2001
From: Yves Pelletier
To:
Subject: [*] YP Mouvement Rectiligne 1.0 (french version of YP Rectilinear Motion)
YP Mouvement Rectiligne is the french version of YP Rectilinear Motion.
New MacOS software to learn kinematics
YP Rectilinear Motion 1.0 is targeted toward physics teachers and physics
students. It allows the user to plot a graph of velocity as a function of
time with simple mouse clicks. The program uses this graph to build a
graph of position vs time, and a graph of acceleration vs time, which are
displayed in separate windows. The motion described by these 3 plots can
be simulated. During the simulation, 3 vectors can be displayed in the
animation window (positon, velocity and acceleration), and the tangent line
can be drawn in the position and velocity graphs.
System Requirements: YP Rectilinear Motion runs on any Macintosh computer
with MAC OS 7, 8 or 9. It needs about 300 Kb on your hard disk and 3 Mb of
RAM.
Keywords: Physics teaching, sciences, motion, kinematics, graphs, slope,
tangent, position, velocity, speed, acceleration, vector, simulation,
animation.
[Archived as /info-mac/sci/yp-mouvement-rectiligne-10.hqx; 296 K]
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Date: 19 Nov 2001
From: Yves Pelletier
To:
Subject: [*] YP Rectilinear Motion 1.0 (learn kinematics with your Mac)
New MacOS software to learn kinematics
YP Rectilinear Motion 1.0 is targeted toward physics teachers and physics
students. It allows the user to plot a graph of velocity as a function of
time with simple mouse clicks. The program uses this graph to build a
graph of position vs time, and a graph of acceleration vs time, which are
displayed in separate windows. The motion described by these 3 plots can
be simulated. During the simulation, 3 vectors can be displayed in the
animation window (positon, velocity and acceleration), and the tangent line
can be drawn in the position and velocity graphs.
System Requirements: YP Rectilinear Motion runs on any Macintosh computer
with MAC OS 7, 8 or 9. It needs about 300 Kb on your hard disk and 3 Mb of
RAM.
Keywords: Physics teaching, sciences, motion, kinematics, graphs, slope,
tangent, position, velocity, speed, acceleration, vector, simulation,
animation.
[Archived as /info-mac/sci/yp-rectilinear-motion-10.hqx; 277 K]
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Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 10:34:17 -0600
From: John Antolak
To: The Info-Mac Network
Subject: overbar and overdot
Michael,
Use the Insert Symbol command (symbol menu item in the insert menu). It will
show you all of the characters available in the current font, you can change
fonts. When you select a character, you can just hit the insert button.
Also, when you select it, any keyboard shortcut or key combination assigned
to the key is shown in the box. If you have certain characters you use all
the time, you can assign your own keyboard shortcuts.
If you still can't find the character you need, use equation editor. It
allows you to put bars, dots, and so on. However, it is not in the default
Word or Powerpoint installation. You'll have to use the Value Pack installer
on the CD.
Of course, I'm assuming that you are using Office 98 or 2001. I'm not
familiar with older versions anymore. Hope this helps.
--
John Antolak
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From: Christian F Buser
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 13:16:41 +0100
To: "Michael S. Silverstein"
Subject: overbar and overdot
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 14:33:18 +0200, Michael S. Silverstein wrote:
>How can I put a bar or dot over a letter in MS Word 2001 and MS
>Powerpoint 2001? I remeber there being special command key sequences
>that I could use, but I have not used them for years.
You don't just think about ä, •, Æ and similar things, do you?
>Is there, perhaps, a font with all the characters overbar-ed and overdot-ed?
I don't know one, but you could design your own (by modifying an
existing font) if you have Fontographer.
As an alternative, put your question on .
Sorry that I can't help more. Best wishes, Christian.
--
Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland)
Look at
Die Natur gab uns zwei Ohren, aber nur eine Zunge (Zulu).
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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 07:47:24 +0200
From: "Michael S. Silverstein"
To: Info-mac
Subject: Overbar and overdot - answer
It seems that in Word the only reliable way to use the overbar and
overdot characters that are needed in science and engineering within
a text paragraph is to use the Equation Editor.
In Powerpoint, the only reliable way to use these characters within a
text paragraph is to Insert / Object / MS Word Document: and then
proceed as described above.
Thanks to everyone who helped!
michael
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Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 03:47:22 -0600
From: DPL (by way of Hugh Lewis)
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: tiff reader enquiry
Dear Reader:
I am trying to locate a good tiff reader as a plug-in for both
Netscape and IE, for Mac OS 9.1.
Could you advise or direct me to a site that I can find this freeware
/ shareware programs.
Thank you.
David
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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:20:17 -0600
From: "Paul M. Sheldon"
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Titanium and video mirroring (A?)
I read the new ones had video mirroring (leading one to perhaps
misleadingly conclude the old one's didn't).
One might self righteously suppose that you got a new titanium and
are asking old titanium gurus something Apple indicates that they should
know nothing about.
;-)
I don't think so!
;-)
I entertain fuzzy thinking and suspect that what you might be
describing is the behavior of an old TiG4 which Apple doesn't "call"
mirroring. They probably wouldn't have said that they "improved mirroring"
(improved from what we observed). Apple can define their stuff as they
please and that sort of mirroring might be embarrassing to mention in an ad
with hindsight.
It looks like the old video card couldn't handle that many pixels.
The word nvidea comes to mind, did they put a new video card in? Did they
put more video ram in (that's what my 8500 needs to do this mirroring)? Did
they have to negotiate with DVD companies about potential low res video
export to an old av machine's quicktime Apple Video Player?
Some guesses :
Maybe marketing takes time and you don't show all your cards at
once if you want to stay afloat and not be sunk by the competition. Someone
check whether nvidea card is in new TiG4, I think building drivers for such
a thing is nontrivial and this is not just staged marketing but developing
technology.
Some observations :
With my old TiG4 long ago, I tried to pump out some video through
the RCA jack adapter and I think I saw the shrink phenomena. I don't know
what I was trying to do. Sometimes, the mac would say outright it didn't
support mirroring and sometimes it would try this way. I have long since
put the adapter cable in the box. I think that DVD player complained it
couldn't when I tried to mirror, but quake II, the big dumb outerspace
marine, tried (stuttering---framespeed went down). Apple technology is
tuning up for major virtual reality stuff I suspect coming in 2003.
Well that's the best I can do now.
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