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\raggedbottom and footnotes. 2 41 (7/6/2007 12:15:59 AM) comp.text.tex Hello, all! My dissertation has a lot of multiline equations in it, which means that I get a fair number of underfull \vbox errors when they fall on page breaks, and things get annoyingly spaced out to corre... Brooks

Listings maintenance: Current status (way behind on bug fixes) 0 19 (6/24/2007 8:08:30 AM) comp.text.tex Dear comp.tex.text readers: I recently sent out this form email to all of the people who have kindly set me bug reports and languages contributions for the "listings" package in the last four months or so; i... Brooks

Transfer and variables that don't use all their storage space. 35 29 (4/9/2007 1:02:08 AM) comp.lang.fortran Hello, all! I'm working on implementing compile-time handling of the transfer intrinsic for GFortran, and have a couple of edge-case questions about the standard that I'm hoping someone here can comment on. ... Brooks

Equivalence of derived types with default initializers? 9 38 (3/16/2007 11:15:15 PM) comp.lang.fortran Joost reently submitted the following code as a bug in GFortran (PR30875), and I'm somewhat uncertain of its validity under the standard: TYPE T1 sequence integer :: i=1 END TYPE T1 TYPE T2... Brooks

Question about ACHAR and IACHAR. 5 48 (1/23/2007 2:33:29 AM) comp.lang.fortran So, I was reading the F2003 specifications for ACHAR and IACHAR, which defines the result value of IACHAR(C) like so: "If C is in the [ASCII collating sequence], the result is the position of C in that sequen... Brooks

Generics with alternate-return arguments? 12 35 (12/17/2006 6:31:40 AM) comp.lang.fortran The following code has a generic interface with a couple of subroutines, one with an alternate-return dummy argument, and one without. This is legal, right? module arswitch implicit none interf... Brooks

Standard query: Bounds of allocatable components from derived-type constructors? 14 48 (10/11/2006 8:35:16 PM) comp.lang.fortran This question recently came up on the GNU Fortran mailing list, and after failing to come up with a definitive answer, I thought I'd post here and see if anyone else had a better idea. Consider the following... Brooks

Package for remote footnote definitions? 6 27 (8/30/2006 6:26:48 PM) comp.text.tex When writing text with long footnotes, there's often an annoyance of having the footnote break up the flow of the sentence in the source file. For me, this makes it much more difficult to evaluate whether th... Brooks

Announcement: Pre-release version of listings v1.4 0 38 (8/22/2006 9:57:48 PM) comp.text.tex Hello! As was mentioned a few months ago, I've recently taken over the maintenance of Carsten Heinz's "listings" package. It's a fairly large and complicated package that I'm still learning my way around, a... Brooks

listings, section headings, and vertical spacing problems. 8 26 (8/17/2006 6:17:13 AM) comp.text.tex Hello! A listings user recently reported this bug to me, and I've spent a while trying to track it down and gotten pretty much stuck -- I don't think I understand the LaTeX kernel and classes well enough to ... Brooks

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Form k = i + j and test for overflow. 109 41 (6/18/2007 8:45:17 PM) comp.lang.fortran My recent query on use of Fortran to carry out the essential operation for multiply-with-carry: Form t = a*x+c in 64 bits, get top and bottom 32 bits of t led to a number of interesting responses, and my co... geo3954 (22)

return value maxloc of an empty array!? 10 48 (6/19/2007 1:12:04 PM) comp.lang.fortran What should the return value be of the functions maxloc / minloc in the case of an empty array? Regards, Arno ... arnoinperu (67)

Online CVF/DVF manual 13 32 (6/21/2007 1:18:04 AM) comp.lang.fortran Until recently I could view the CVF Version 6.6 Programmer's Guide and Language Reference online, but now I find that all the links take me to here: http://h21007.www2.hp.com/portal/site/dspp/menuitem.968f6ac... g.bogle (180)

array bounds in assignments 17 34 (6/23/2007 9:03:37 AM) comp.lang.fortran Some months ago, Sun received a complaint from a user that a program worked differently when compiled with and without optimization. The key difference was in the code generated for an array assignment. The f... robert.corbett2 (862)

reading an external text file 27 51 (6/26/2007 9:35:10 PM) comp.lang.fortran program harper3 CHARACTER(256) :: Filename CHARACTER(100) :: content Filename ="m16.txt" OPEN(10,FILE=Filename,STATUS='OLD') read(10,'(a)') content CLOSE(10) write (*,*) content end program harper3 !end source ... zaxfuuq1 (47)

What would it take to have no undefined behavior in Fortran ? 13 32 (6/27/2007 10:35:27 PM) comp.lang.fortran The simulation professor's post showed that even "dirty" things like integer overflow have practical uses and that programmers may have legitimate reasons to deliberately code for such things. From what I und... analyst41 (232)

Auto-Deallocation of local pointer? 2 49 (7/5/2007 5:20:47 AM) comp.lang.fortran hi, Should local pointer variables be auto-deallocated on function/ subroutine exit.? I know this is true for allocatable variables, but will auto- deallocation of a pointer variable make sense? what does stan... gauravgautam123 (20)

\raggedbottom and footnotes. 2 41 (7/6/2007 12:15:59 AM) comp.text.tex Hello, all! My dissertation has a lot of multiline equations in it, which means that I get a fair number of underfull \vbox errors when they fall on page breaks, and things get annoyingly spaced out to corre... bmoses-nospam (1258)

Why use the TeX suite? 101 33 (7/9/2007 3:25:52 AM) comp.text.tex It appears to me that ignorance is a big factor in the small up-take of the TeX suite, both in academic circles, and more generally in industry, government, and business. Document production, and their prese... rmatycorp (74)

FORTRAN IV program illustrating assigned GO TO on web site 95 86 (8/12/2007 7:18:25 PM) comp.lang.fortran Many years ago, I wrote a program to draw a map of the world in any one of several different projections. This was back when computer time cost money, so I did not want to contend with the overhead of a subrou... jsavard (199)