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diff --git a/macros/blu/readme.fst b/macros/blu/readme.fst deleted file mode 100644 index 9f2a8cbbb8..0000000000 --- a/macros/blu/readme.fst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,120 +0,0 @@ -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.
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