Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #147 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest 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?) The Info-Mac Network is a volunteer organization that publishes the Info-Mac Digest and operates the Info-Mac Archive, a large network of FTP sites containing gigabytes of freely distributable Macintosh software. 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Info-Mac volunteers include Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Hugh Lewis, Tom Coradeschi, Shawn Bunn, Christopher Li, Patrik Montgomery, Ed Chambers, and Chris Pepper. America Online donated the main Info-Mac machine . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V18 #147" ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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] ------------------------------ 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] ------------------------------ 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] ------------------------------ 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] ------------------------------ 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] ------------------------------ 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] ------------------------------ 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] ------------------------------ 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 ---------- 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). ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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. -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************