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diff --git a/macros/xetex/plain/do-it-yourself-tex/TEXT-SAMPLES/GENEALOGICAL-TEXTS/presentation-symbols.tex b/macros/xetex/plain/do-it-yourself-tex/TEXT-SAMPLES/GENEALOGICAL-TEXTS/presentation-symbols.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..695601b6af --- /dev/null +++ b/macros/xetex/plain/do-it-yourself-tex/TEXT-SAMPLES/GENEALOGICAL-TEXTS/presentation-symbols.tex @@ -0,0 +1,182 @@ +% [presentation-symbols.tex] +% The heading material has been removed for clarity. + +% notice the use of \llap to put the definition term (e.g. "dates") off to the left. +% notice, around line 40) the use of the macro \ancestors#1#2#3 from [macros.mac] +% notice the use of \[ -- \] and \(--\) from [format_XETEX.mac] to leave a little space +% between the [ ] and the enclosed text. +% notice the use of \sni (smallskip + noindent), \mni etc for spacing between certain portions +% of the text + + + {\rm % 12.5pt +% +% +\phantom{SOF} +% +\vskip -20pt\nin +% + \centerline{\bfsixteen Presentation and Symbols} +% +\mni +% +{\leftskip = 70pt +% +\llap{\hbox to \leftskip{terminology\hfill}} +If we consider the person called Solomon \ml, then: +\sni +The expression \lq given name\rq\ refers to Solomon. An equivalent expression is \lq personal name\rq. +\sni +The expression \lq family name\rq\ refers to \ml. +\sni +\item{}Note that a person can have several given names and because of the 1808 name changes they might also +have a \lq former name\rq\ or perhaps even several former names. +\mni +The expression \lq name\rq\ refers to the combination, Solomon \ml. +\mni +\llap{\hbox to \leftskip{presentation\hfill}} +\kern -3pt Each ancestor appears at least once in a \lq presentation\rq\ form. This is illustrated by +the main entry for +Solomon \ml\ (see below for the symbols and abbreviations used): +% + \mni +% +\ancestor{\bffourteen Solomon \ml\star\former{Solomon Hirtzel}} {111\|12\fsl +112\|12}{ 1804.04.15 \[25 Germinal XII\], \dau\tiret 1865.11.08, \dau\ \[AN, 1808,\th AM,\th AD,\th S\]} +% +\mni +% + {\it Solomon Hirtzel\/} is the former, in this case the pre-1808, name of Solomon \ml. +The names are followed by his identification number, birth and death dates\fsl places and a list of the +documents that +are available. +% +\sni +Note that women are always referred to by their pre-marriage names. The spelling of names has been + standardized in the text e.g.\ Mantel\Th\EAA\kern-6pt Mandel; L\ae vi\Th\EAA\kern-6ptL\ae vy; +Salmann\Th\EAA\kern-6pt +Solomon\gl, etc.\gl. For an AM taken from \[Fraen-mar\] I have kept the original spelling. +% +\mni +% +% NO SPACE AFTER \HFILL}} +\llap{\hbox to \leftskip{dates\hfill}}Dates are given in the format: +{year{\bfsixteen.}month{\bfsixteen.}day}, +e.g.\ {1811.03.19} for March 19, 1811. +\sni +\item{} Note also that numbers less than 10 are written with a 0 before +the number, i.e.\ the above date is {\it not\/} written as {\tt 1811.3.19}\gl. [This format provides a means +of listing the files in a directory of the DVD in the correct chronological order]. +% explanation too long . I put the rest after \bye +% +\sni +% +Often it is not clear, or not indicated, if the date on a document is the actual date of an event (e.g.\ AD) +or the date when the event was reported. Thus dates indicated may be off by a few days. +% +\sni +% +Starting on September 22, 1792 [\th 01 vend\ae miaire of year I\th] until January 01, 1806 [\th 11 +niv\co se of year +XIV\th] +the French Republican calendar was in effect.\HTML\ If a document was written in the period covered by the +French +Republican +calendar then the date corresponding to the usual calendar is listed first, followed by the Republican date +in square brackets. For conversions and more information: +% +\item{}{\tteleven www.poissons52.fr/histoire/revolution1789/\kern -3pt\web}\break +{\tteleven calendrier\unl v.php} +% +\vfill\eject +% +\nin +% +\llap{\hbox to \leftskip{\star\hfill}}There is a special section devoted to this person. +% +\mni +% +\llap{\hbox to \leftskip{ca.\hfill}}Circa, used when an educated guess can be made concerning +a date. E.g.\ the age of a deceased person might appear on the death certificate, without the actual year of +birth being given. The estimated date of birth is obtained by subtraction, but this might be off by one or +more years. +% +\mni +% handbook, p. 497 , before and after e.g. +\llap{\hbox to \leftskip{b. \hfill}}Before the date, e.g.\ b.\gl 1808 is used when the person is not listed +in +the change of name registers of 1808 (\gl [1808]\th, [Katz-1808]\gl) and there is reason to believe that they +were no longer alive. This information should be used with caution, because the person may have changed +domicile. +% +\mni +% handbook, p. 497 , before and after e.g. +\llap{\hbox to \leftskip{a. \hfill}}After the date, e.g.\ a.\gl 1784 is used when the person is not listed in +the census of 1784 (\gl [1784]\gl) and there is reason to believe that they had not yet been born. This +information should be used with caution, because of the great variation in names between 1784 and 1808, etc. +% +\mni +% +% handbook, p. 497 , before and after e.g. +\llap{\hbox to \leftskip{*\hfill}}No information, used, e.g., when a first or last name +or a date is missing. +% +\mni +% +\llap{\hbox to \leftskip{ ?,\Th ??,\Th ???\hfill}}These indicate respectively, \lq not absolutely +certain\rq, \lq educated guess\rq, \lq wild guess\rq. These are not employed on the charts or on the list of +all the ancestors. +% +\mni +% +% o.k. with 1 arrow here, but if put at end it prints almost the entire cmsy10 table! +% +\llap{\hbox to \leftskip{ !,\Th !!,\Th !!!\hfill}}These indicate respectively, +\lq does not seem right\rq, \lq hard to believe\rq, \lq truly unbelievable\rq. These reflect such +things as disparate ages of children, etc.\gl. +% +% +% skip I do not think that I use for descendants +% +% with the arrows it separated the (previously longer) sentence with a large gap. +% SO LEAVE THIS \VSKIP! +% +%\llap{\hbox to \leftskip{\SEA\Th\NA\kern -4pt\EA\hfill}} +%\llap{\hbox to \leftskip{\EA\Th\EAA\hfill}}Used in lists to indicate descendants. +%\raise 1truept\hbox{\kern -3pt Arrows point to another location +%on the page.} +% +\mni +% +\llap{\hbox to \leftskip{\bften DVD\hfill}}The AN, AM, AD that are mentioned in the text +appear on the accompanying DVD. The symbol\ DVD\ is used with other documents, images etc.\ to +indicate that they too appear on the DVD. +\mni +% +\llap{\hbox to \leftskip{\bften HTML\hfill}}Used to indicate that a topic can be accessed on the DVD from +the +HTML page:\Th +% I changed to lc. to match web sites +{\ttten symbols\unl sources\unl references\unl etc.html}\gl. +% +\mni +% +\llap{\hbox to \leftskip{\web\hfill}}Used with long web addresses to indicate that the +address is continued on the next line. +\mni +% +\llap{\hbox to \leftskip{\square\hfill}}Information, e.g.\ from a web page, which I was unable to verify via +documents, texts, etc.\gl. % +% +\pni +% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% KEEP THIS ENDING!!! % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +% +\vfill\eject % do not want extra page +% + } % ends \rm + \par} % ends \hsize + \bye + + + + |