[Fhsst-authors] Potpourri

[Peter Hutnick]

1. When I make a DVI any pstricks lines are omitted.  Character portions 
of the figure do show up.  When I make a PDF from the DIV the lines 
appear.  Does this mean something is wrong with my pstricks install?  Or 
is this an inherent limitation of pstricks?  I experience the same 
behavior on my Windows system and my GNU/Linux system.

2. I am at a loss for how to proceed on the logs stuff.  I don't know 
what the "inverse method" is.  It isn't mentioned in the Mathematics 
Curriculum (in the "other" dir).  I can't imagine why the exponential 
function section comes after the exponential and logarithmic functions 
section.  I am somewhat confused about the placement of function 
symmetry right in the middle of the discussion of logs and the exponential.

Anyway, I am working from the following in the Curriculum:

   • analyses and recognises situations in which it may be helpful to
     manipulate
   • representations:
        o converting fluently between exponential and logarithmic forms
          of an equation
        o deriving and using the laws of logarithms where appropriate

3. \begin{figure}[!h] is not recommended, but is used frequently (43 
times) in hsalgebra.  In fact, contemporary versions of LaTeX 
automatically convert this to !ht.  Maybe these should be changed to a 
more liberal setting?

Thanks for any and all guidance!

-Peter