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-README first BLUe's format system June 1996
-
-Subject: Note which accompanies BLUe's format system and
- provides a survey of the background articles.
-
-The BLUe's format system is for typesetting with plain TeX, and
-is shareware available.
-(A happy :-) user is requested to send the equivalent of ~20 breads
- in US dollars to the author to support his work especially upgrading
- my hardware. The pricing policy is according to the macindex and
- appropriate for users in financial disadvantaged countries.
- Don't send breads nor a check. Just the money in an envelope.)
-
-The user's guide `Publishing with TeX' and accompanying articles
-which explain details and show examples are free for personal use.
-
-No profit is allowed to make from it.
-
-When the results are used a proper credit
----be it Knuth or the authors of gkpmac,
- or me for the composition and the fill-ins---
-is the least a happy publishing user can do.
-
-Best wishes and good luck, ---Kees--- cgl@rc.service.rug.nl
-
-How to process the PWT user's guide?
-------------------------------------
-Copy blue.tex, fmt.dat, tools.dat, pic.dat, next to the PWT files
-pwt.scr is the basic script which invokes all the other chapters:
-pwt.int, pwt.txt, pwt.mat, pwt.tab, pwt.grf, pwt.ref, pwt.ind,
-pwt.cus, pwt.aft, pwt.fmt, pwt.tls, pwt.sur, pwt.his, pwt.tot, pwt.obs,
-into a directory where TeX can find them, and then run tex
-tex pwt.scr
-(Each chapter can be processed independently via tex pwt.int for example).
-
-Contents BLUe's format system
------------------------------
-The files are: blue.tex (format)
- fmt.dat (variant formats)
- tools.dat (tools like indexing)
- address.dat, lit.dat, pic.dat (databases)
-The user's guide is called Publishing with TeX.
-
-A handy auxiliary is pfile to print blue.tex with appropriate line numbers.
-A generalization is pgfile which prompts for the name of the file to be printed.
-
-The files which compose the user's guide Publishing with TeX have pwt as rootname
-and the chapter indicaton as extension.
-pwt.scr is the basic script which invokes all the other chapters:
-pwt.int, pwt.txt, pwt.mat, pwt.tab, pwt.grf, pwt.ref, pwt.ind,
-pwt.cus, pwt.aft, pwt.fmt, pwt.tls, pwt.sur, pwt.his, pwt.tot, pwt.obs.
-In total 16 files. Answers to the exercises, list of examples, table of
-contents, and index---yes that is new---are all generated on the fly and
-included automatically as appendices.
-Special is plnindex.tpl, a template for indexing loosened from blue.tex.
-It can be used with AnyTeX, as an independent tool for making an index.
-Needed is tools.dat, especially the sorting and indexing macros.
-The latter are loaded selectively from the database tools.dat.
-
-Background articles (Have appeared in MAPS and are available on NTG's CD-ROM)
--------------------
-BLUe's Format (The umbrella article about blue.tex.)
-BLUe's Graphs (The gkppic macros are explained.)
-BLUe's Cross-Refs (One-pass cross-referencing with math.)
-BLUe's Bibliography (One-pass bibliography handling.)
-BLUe's Verbatim (Handling verbatims in TeX.)
-BLUe's Transparencies (The making of transparencies.)
-BLUe's Index (The making of indexes in a one-pass job.)
-BLUe's Pascal (About typesetting Pascal programs/fragments.)
-BLUe's Reports (The making of reports.)
-BLUe's Letters (The making of letters.)
-BLUe's Databases (The approach to storing auxiliaries.)
-BLUe-2-LaTeX (Acceptance and conversion.)
-
-Related material (Have appeared in MAPS and are available on NTG's CD-ROM)
-----------------
-Manmac BLUes (Is all about manmac, as-is etc.)
-AMS BLUes (Details with AMS practice, \lsams for
- formatting references is inspired upon AMS.)
-TUGboat BLUes (TUGboat styles are discussed. ppt.tex emerged
- from this which is at the heart of blue.tex)
-Math into BLUes (The typesetting of math via TeX is detailed with.)
-Icons via lfonts (Common matrix icons via LaTeX's fonts.)
-Table Diversions (The typesetting of tables via TeX is treated.)
-
-Auxiliary (Have appeared in MAPS and are available on NTG's CD-ROM)
----------
-Sorting in BLUe (The basics needed for making a simple index.)
-FIFO and LIFO sing the BLUes (FIFO paradigm is treated, fundamental.)
-Syntactic Sugar (Discusses various approaches to macros.)
-
-An overview is supplied in What is TeX and METAfont all about? (NLUUG, 1993)
-The relation to SGML is treated in SGML(TeX,\dots ). (Cork 1990)
-Spivak's approach has been reviewed in Spivak's Oeuvre.
-
-For fun are added---and also show macro writing by example---
-Typesetting bridge via TeX
-Typesetting crosswords via TeX
-Tower of Hanoi, revisited.
-
-Paradigms (See elsewhere in the CTAN;
---------- have appeared in MAPS and are available on NTG's CD-ROM)
-
-Headache?
-Plain's item extended
-Two-part macros
-Parameterization I Options
-Parameterization II Place within context
-Winds and halfwinds---Details matter
-It's all in the game
-Loops
-Searching in BLUe
-Sorting in TeX
-Just a little bit of PostScript (with a few .eps files)
-
-Of course all the articles run with blue.tex in plain TeX.
-Earlier versions have appeared in NTG's MAPS casu quo in proceedings of TuG/LUG meetings.
-
-Kees van der Laan, Hunzeweg 57, 9893PB, Garnwerd, The Netherlands.
-Phone: (31) (0)594 62 1525, email: cgl@rc.service.rug.nl. \ No newline at end of file