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\footnote............................................................1
Letters to the Editor................................................2
News
  Headlines..........................................................3
  First report from the DVI standards committee......................4
  Call for driver information........................................5
  First announcement and call for papers: TeX89......................6
  Preliminary table of contents, TUGboat 10#1, April 1989............7
Layout puzzles.......................................................8
Eliminating italic corrections.......................................9
Cumulative index: V1N1-V3N1.........................................10
     
     
     
     
     
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\footnote{Green with envy}
     
Last night I came across a copy of the Proceedings of the Second
European Conference on TeX and Scientific Documentation
(Springer-Verlag), and was quite impressed with the amount and
quality of work being done in Europe with TeX. Out of curiosity, I
flipped to the front of the volume to see who the editor was. Before
I managed to find this out, I was struck instead by a comment
casually mentioning how widespread use of TeX was in Europe.
     
This comment probably would have passed by my attention had I not
read in Bart Childs' column in TUGboat 9(3), "Cathy Booth pointed out
that the attendance at the Exeter meeting was nearly the same as
ours. We have several times as many TUG members in the U.S. and
Canada as there are in Europe." And then a couple pages later,
Barbara Beeton writes, "TeX is accepted in Europe and other areas of
the world even more readily (if possible) than in North America."
     
I suspect that Barbara's "if possible" is a bit spurious and that, in
fact, TeX is far more accepted in Europe than it is in North America,
despite a rather blatant US English slant to its typography.
     
This issue contains some additional evidence of the truth of that
last statement: notices for TWO (count 'em TWO) European TeX
conferences, and a letter mentioning the existence of a German-only
LaTeX book. The impression that I get from my European colleagues is
that TeX is far more into the "mainstream" in Europe than it is in the
U.S. Clearly, *something* is going right with TeX in Europe.
     
But what?
     
What is the factor that has led to the wider acceptance of TeX in
Europe? Are there large numbers of European publishers supporting
TeX? Is it TeX's support of accents? Or hyphenation? I'm not even
close to being able to answer any of these questions, but I'd be glad
to hear from my subscribers to find out what you think is responsible
for this state of affairs.
     
G'day
     
-dh
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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*                        Letters to the Editor                       *
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Date: Fri, 30 Dec 88 23:42:43 est
From: rjchen@phoenix.Princeton.EDU
     
As part of the trailer, you have
     
>TeXMaG is an independantly published electronic magazine available
>free of charge to all interested parties reachable by electronic
>mail. It is published sporadicly, and the editor likes to think that
>its monthly so the readers humor him. Subscription requests should
>be sent to Don Hosek <DHOSEK@HMCVAX.BITNET> . . .
     
I believe the fourth word should be spelled ``independently''.
``inde pendant ly'', hm, I wonder what that could mean.  Pendant.
This word has potential...
     
BTW, the sentence starting with ``It is publised sporadically'' I found
most amusing.  You might want to change [its] into [it's], though.
That's all.  Keep up the good work.
     
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Date: Sat, 22 Oct 88 20:45:01 GMT
From: ANDERSON%AGI.SDSCNET@SDSC.BITNET
     
Please sign me up for your TeXmag e-mail distribution schedule. I have
really enjoyed reading the past issues. Also I would like to offer a
"find" I made on a recent trip to Germany: Our German TeX/LaTeX
colleagues are making greater strides in *instruction* for LaTeX
use... Addison-Wesley (Bonn) has published a book (offered exclusively
in German!, i.e., *not* scheduled for English translation!) by Helmut
Kopka, "LaTeX-eine Einf\"uhrung", 1988 which I found to unlock many
mysteries of *options* for commands that, after 3 years of LaTeX use,
I was still unaware of there existence. One gold star for the German
TeX community!
     -Harry Anderson, blender of LaTeX and Synthetic Peptide Chemistry
     
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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 89 12:58:55 -0500
From: Ken Yap <ken@cs.rochester.edu>
     
Hi Don,
     
In a moment of idleness, I picked up back issues of TeXMaG from
Clarkson and decided I'd write the editor a letter.
     
I've seen queries on mailing lists and newsgroups about "How to get
TeX running on my Kludge 499?" and often the implied but unworded
query is: how come there is no central authority that knows all the
facts?
     
I think it would pay to step back and reflect on the complexity of the
TeX world. Here are some large areas of expertise, each of which could
easily take up all of one person's time.
     
+ TeX/LaTeX macro hacking: As with any complex language, the effort of
learning how to write TeX is comparable to learning a conventional
computer language like Modula-2. And as with other language, it does
no good just to spend nights in bed with the TeXbook, one has to get
one's hands dirty.  (This will be a lucrative area when publishing
really discovers computerized typesetting. I can see job ads now:
"Must be fluent in C, Pascal, TeX and PostScript.") Mutatis mutandis
for METAFONT, but to lesser extent.
     
+ TeX software installation: The effort of maintaining TeX software on
a system is comparable to that of maintaining a compiler and
associated files. Just think of all those macros and style files you
had to install, those times when users came running in with "what does
it mean TeX capacity exceeded." Proof of this is that we have
enterprises selling turnkey pre-configured TeX systems. Obviously some
sites do not have the personnel to worry about such things.
     
It is also worth remembering that TeX is a very portable piece of
software running on many diverse machines and no-one can know about
the intricacies of every implementation.
     
+ TeX enhancements and software distribution: There are the people who
work on the leading edge, the people who worry about standardizing
\specials, merging in new contributions, etc. Site maintainers are
such people, but there are other industrious souls too. Enhancements
have to be subjected to trial use and comment.
     
+ TeX information dissemination: There are the people who document,
collate and publish what has been done. There is the official
TUGBOAT, the TeXHax mailing list, various local lists like UKTeX and
not forgetting TeXMaG. Often, such work involves tangling with ugly
aspects of networking.
     
>From this list we can see that there is no way one person or even
one site can have all the answers. TeX is a huge co-operative effort.
You can help by being aware of what's out there, by volunteering help,
by contributing a macro or two or anything at all that will reduce
reinvention of the wheel.
     
I hope this limited overview may help you present arguments when
requesting resources to support text processing activities. For many
sites, text processing is a major activity and deserves concommitant
allocation of personnel and materiel. I confidently predict that
text processing will be a major growth area for computer usage.
After all, computers are about information handling and not just
programs or programs to make programs.
     
    Ken
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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*                            Headlines...                            *
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-> TeXMaG is now officially a bi-monthly. It will be published
   somewhere in the middle of every even-numbered month.
     
-> For those of you who might have experienced difficulty retrieving
   files from sun.soe.clarkson.edu (home of the LaTeX style
   repository), the problem has been fixed: there had been a disk
   failure causing the files from pub to be inaccessible for a few
   days.
     
-> TeX is officially at version 2.96 and MF at version 1.7. There
   have also been some updates to a few of the CM MF files. Your
   site's TeX maintainer should get new copies of the appropriate
   files if this has not already been done.
     
-> LaTeX is also at a new version, the latest being dated 8 Feb 1989.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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*       First report from the DVI driver standards committee         *
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The TUG DVI driver standards committee has been working on the
development of standards for device drivers since the fall of 1988.
This article is a first report on our status to the membership of TUG.
     
At the time of this writing, we are in the midst of discussion of
\special standards for device drivers. By the TUG meeting this August,
we should have a preliminary report on this topic available for
distribution to all interested parties. We welcome all input from
members of the TeX community; if you have any suggestions, comments,
etc. regarding the issue of \special handling, we would appreciate it
if you could send these to Robert McGaffey (Internet:
McGaffey%Orn.Mfenet@Nmfecc.Arpa) for distribution to the members of
the committee.
     
The members of the committee are: Robert McGaffey, chair, Oak Ridge
National Laboratory; David P. Babcock, Hewlett-Packard; Elizabeth
Barnhart, TV Guide; Stephan v. Bechtolsheim, Integrated Computer
Software Inc.; Nelson Beebe, University of Utah; Jackie Damrau,
University of New Mexico; Donald Goldhammer, University of Chicago;
Don Hosek, University of Illinois at Chicago; David Ness, TV Guide;
Thomas J. Reid, Texas A&M University; David Rodgers, Arbortext, Inc.;
Brian Skidmore, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.; Glenn Vanderburg,
Texas A&M University; and Ralph Youngen, American Mathematical
Society.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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*                   Call for driver information                      *
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by Don Hosek <U33297@UICVM.UIC.EDU> or <U33297@UICVM.BITNET>
     
Looks like it's about that time again...
     
If you're using TeX, you most likely are using it with a device driver
of some sort (unless you're very strange). If you can identify the
source of any of your device drivers/previewers please send me a note
listing
1) The computer it runs on
2) the printer/display it drives
3) where it came from.
4) frequently I'm asked to comment on the utility of various drivers,
   so if you could supply me with some of your *opinions* on the driver
   I'd appreciate it.
     
If you distribute drivers, I would appreciate the following
information:
1) a list of drivers that you distribute with the information listed
   above. I will send you a follow-up note asking for more detail,
   plus a listing of what I currently have.
2) all the ways to contact you that are acceptable (viz e-mail, postal
   mail, phone, telex, etc.)
3) information on obtaining the programs (from FTP, file servers, on
   tape or disk etc.) and costs.
4) support for anything you sell/give away
5) other sources for obtaining your drivers (commercial vendors,
   etc.)
6) anything else that may be of interest.
     
If you have access to TUGboat, I would appreciate it if you could look
at the device driver listings in the most recent issue of TUGboat you
can get and let me know about any errors/omissions.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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*              First announcement and Call for Papers                *
*                              TeX89                                 *
*             4th Annual Meeting of European TeX Users               *
*               September 11-13, 1989, Karlsruhe, FRG                *
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TeX89, the 4th European TeX Conference, will take place at Karlsruhe
University, FRG, from Monday, September 11, to Wednesday, September
13, 1989. The conference will be organized by Anne
Br\"uggemann-Klein, Department of Computer Science, University of
Freiburg, and Rainer Rupprecht, Computing Center, University of
Karlsruhe.
     
Following the tradition of last years' conferences, contributions are
welcome from all areas of TeX, Metafont, and related subjects. Likely
themes might include:
     
o document structures (LaTeX, SGML, ODA,...)
o non-technical TeX (humanities, music, exotic languages,...)
o other technical areas (chemistry, physics, biology,...)
o difficult jobs with TeX, LaTeX,...
o graphics and TeX
o TeX training
o TeX as part of a larger system (user interfaces, tools,
  environments,...)
o TeX as a production tool
o fonts to use with TeX (Metafont and other systems)
o TeX and PostScript
o Macro packages
o public domain TeX vs. commercial TeX
     
Besides traditional paper sessions, discussion groups on special
subjects and exhibitions will be organized. In a special session at
the end of the conference, highlights of the discussion groups will
be presented to the general audience. Conference proceedings will be
published after the conference.
     
Various workshops and participatory seminars will be offered before
and after the conference. Proposals for topics and voluntary tutors
are welcome.
     
The conference fee will be approximately DM 280. The fee includes
registration materials, lunches, social events, and a copy of the
conference proceedings.
     
A second circular containing the preliminary program will be out by
March 31, 1989.
     
==============================Cut Here================================
Name__________________________________________________________________
Affiliation___________________________________________________________
Address_______________________________________________________________
       _______________________________________________________________
       _______________________________________________________________
Telephone_____________________________________________________________
E-mail________________________________________________________________
     
Please check where appropriate:
___ Please add my name to the TeX89 mailing list.
___ I am seriously considering attending the conference.
___ I would like to present a paper. The title will be:
    __________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________
    My talk will take ____ minutes. The abstract (1 page) is included.
___ I would like to contribute to or participate in discussion groups
    on:
    __________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________
___ I would like to offer a workshop before or after the conference
    on:
    __________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________
___ I would like to participate in a workshop before or after the
    conference on:
    __________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________
     
Send to: Rainer Rupprecht
         Rechenzentrum
         Universit\"at Karlsruhe
         Postfach 6980
         7500 Karlsruhe 1, FRG
         E-mail: Rz32@Dkauni48.Bitnet
     
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*       Preliminary table of contents, TUGboat 10#1, April 1989      *
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General Delivery
    Bart Childs         From the President
                        Donald E. Knuth Scholarship
    Barbara Beeton      Editorial Comments
    Barbara Beeton      A TeX encounter in Japan
     
Software
    Adrian Clark        An enhanced TeX-editor interface for VMS
    Michael Harrison    News from the VorTeX project
    Klaus Thull         The virtual memory management of PubliC TeX
    Richard Kinch       TurboMetafont: A new port in C for Unix
                        and MS-DOS
    Stephan v. Bechtolsheim   The TeX PostScript software package
     
Fonts
    Georgia K.M. Tobin  A handy little font
    Donald Knuth        Typesetting Concrete Mathematics
    Doug Henderson      Outline fonts with Metafont
    Zalman Rubenstein   Chess Printing via Metafont and TeX
    Dominik Wujastyk    Font update
     
Graphics
    Bart Childs, Alan Stolleis and Don Berryman
                   A portable graphics inclusion
    David F. Rogers          Computer graphics and TeXDash a challenge
     
Output Devices
    Don Hosek      TeX output devices (with charts)
    Don Hosek      Report from the DVI dviver standards committee
    Marius Broeren and Jan van Knippenberg
                   High quality printing of TeX in the VAX/VMS
                        environment
     
Site Reports
    Peter Abbott        UKTeX and the Aston archive
  Amiga
    Kim Kubik      AmigaTeX... or How envy was resisted and
                         knowledge found on the road to Ooc
  Data General
    Bart Childs         Data General site report
  UNIX
    Pierre MacKay       UnixTeX site report
  VAX/VMS
    David Kellerman          VAX/VMS site report
     
Typesetting on PCs
    Alan Hoenig         The land of the free and the near free
    Michael Modest      Using TeX and LaTeX with WordPerfect 5.0
     
Macros
    David F. Rogers and Joost Zalmstra
                   A page make-up macro
    Brother Eric Vogel  Printing Vietnamese characters by
                        adding diacritical marks
    Sriram Sankar       APE -- A set of TeX macros to format Ada
                        programs
    James Nearing       Extended equation numbering in Plain TeX
     
LaTeX
    Michael DeCorte          Contents of LaTeX style collection
                        as of 24 September 1988
    Frank Mittelbach    ``A new implementation of the tabular- and
                        array-environments of LaTeX''
                        (TUGboat 9#3) -- addenda
    Rainer Schoepf      Drawing histogram bars inside the LaTeX
                        picture-environment
    Dezso Nagy          Vertical centering for transparencies
    C. G. van der Laan  Typesetting in Bridge
     
News & Announcements
    Calendar
    GUTenberg Congres, Paris, 16-17 May 1989
    TeX89: Karlsruhe University, 11-13 September 1989
    David Osborne       A UK TeX Users' Group --
                   Report of a preliminary meeting
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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*                           Layout Puzzles                           *
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by Hubert Partl <Z3000PA@AWITUW01.BITNET>
     
This is a new regular column of questions and answers concerning
the document layout to be procduced by LaTeX style files.
     
Layout Puzzle No.1:
-------------------
     
To start with, here is a question with an immediate solution:
     
Question: I want to separate paragraphs by vertical \parskip
          with no horizontal \parindent, as it is usual in
          informal scientific reports previously typed on a
          simple typewriter - in contrast to the professional
          printers' style of indenting paragraphs.
     
Solution: It is trivial to set \parskip and \parindent to any value.
          However, non-zero \parskip has some side-effects on the
          vertical spacing of the list environments. Here is a
          solution that takes care of the environments, too:
     
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% This is PARSKIP.STY by H.Partl, TU Wien, as of 19 Jan 1989.
% Document Style Option to be used with any style and with any size.
% It produces the following Paragraph Layout:
%     Zero Parindent and non-zero Parskip. The stretchable glue in \parskip
%     helps LaTeX in finding the best place for page breaks.
     
\parskip=0.5\baselineskip \advance\parskip by 0pt plus 2pt
\parindent=\z@
     
% To accompany this, the vertical spacing in the list environments is changed
% to use the same as \parskip in all relevant places (for normalsize only):
%   \parsep = \parskip
%   \itemsep = \z@ % add nothing to \parskip between items
%   \topsep = \z@ % add nothing to \parskip before first item
     
\def\@listI{\leftmargin\leftmargini
   \topsep\z@ \parsep\parskip \itemsep\z@}
\let\@listi\@listI
\@listi
     
\def\@listii{\leftmargin\leftmarginii
   \labelwidth\leftmarginii\advance\labelwidth-\labelsep
   \topsep\z@ \parsep\parskip \itemsep\z@}
     
\def\@listiii{\leftmargin\leftmarginiii
    \labelwidth\leftmarginiii\advance\labelwidth-\labelsep
    \topsep\z@ \parsep\parskip \itemsep\z@}
     
% Note that listiv, listv and listvi don't change vertical parameters.
     
\endinput
<------------------- cut here ----------------------------------------
     
Caution: In this solution, there is no distinction between lists
         inside of paragraphs and lists that are separate paragraphs.
         Who has an idea, how one might achieve such a distinction?
         Also, there are other environments that explicitely reset
         \parskip and parindent. They should be changed acordingly.
         Which are they? Answers are welcome...
     
     
Layout Puzzle No.2:
-------------------
     
Now, here is the new question to be answered in the next issue:
     
         I want to use running footings (with page number and some
         text, in analogy to the myheadings pagestyle), and I want
         a horizontal rule above that foot line.
     
     
Readers are encouraged to try to provide solutions to this question.
--->    Please, send your e-mail to   U33297@Uicvm.Uic.Edu        <---
The "best" solutions will be published in next issue's Layout Puzzles
column. Readers are also encouraged to raise questions for the next
issues of this column - this shall not be a one-man-show by myself!
     
     
Hubert Partl, TU Wien (Austria)
              z3000pa@awituw01.bitnet
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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*                  Eliminating Italic Corrections                    *
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by Dan Bernstein <bernsten@phoenix.princeton.edu>
     
It is amazing that for all these years TeX users, from the novice to
the practiced TeXnician, have put up with figuring out when to type \/
to insert an italic correction. Of all the typing conventions I have
taught myself to use to deal with TeX, this is the only one I can't
stand. The macros below (hopefully) deal with all italic corrections
by themselves, with the user never needing to think about them again.
     
Recall that an italic correction is always added when switching from
italic to roman type, except when the italic type is followed
immediately by a roman period or comma.
     
To use the macros, simply type \ital{text} where you would normally
type {\it text}, and similarly for \roman. \slant is like \ital.
These are not \long macros and are meant for text within a paragraph,
so stick to {\it...} for many-paragraph italicization.
     
First come the basic definitions.
     
  \newif\ifcorr\newif\ifnonzero
  \newskip\lasts\newdimen\lastk\newcount\lastp
  {\lasts 0pt plus 0pt minus 0pt\xdef\zerolasts{\the\lasts}}
     
Now come the macros for dealing with italics. Notice the use of
\futurelet to see what token comes after the \ital{...}. These macros
aren't perfect; the worst problem is that they can't really look ahead
to see if a period or a comma will be added next to the text, and they
only see if the next token after the } is a period or a comma. If you
have some other macro or character that should also force the italic
correction to disappear, add \do{\themacroname} to \nocorr.
     
  \def\ital#1{{\it #1}\begingroup\futurelet\temp\corr}
  \def\slant#1{{\sl #1}\begingroup\futurelet\temp\corr}
  \def\nocorr{\do{.}\do{,}}
  \def\corr{\def\do##1{\ifx\temp##1\corrfalse\fi}\corrtrue\nocorr
            \ifcorr\/\fi\endgroup}
     
The problem of roman type within italic type is quite different. The
italic correction will always be added at the beginning (if you're
typing \ital{... something\roman{,} ...} then you have a very weird
idea of the logical structure of your document). However, \roman will
almost always be preceded by a space, and maybe even some kerns,
penalties, and other glue; so we must ``unspace'' past these items,
add the italic correction, and put the spaces back. The \roman macro
reflects this; \unspace removes as many glue/kern/penalty items as
possible from the current horizontal list and sets \temp to a control
sequence that dumps all the glue/kern/penalty items right back on.
     
  \def\roman#1{\begingroup\unspace\/\temp\endgroup{\rm #1}}
  \def\unspace{%
   \def\temp{}\loop\nonzerofalse
   \lasts\lastskip\unskip
   \lastk\lastkern\unkern
   \lastp\lastpenalty\unpenalty
   \edef\thelasts{\the\lasts}%
   \ifx\thelasts\zerolasts
    \else\edef\temp{\hskip\thelasts\temp}\nonzerotrue\fi
   \ifdim\lastk=0pt\else\edef\temp{\kern\the\lastk\temp}\nonzerotrue\fi
   \ifnum\lastp=0\else\edef\temp{\penalty\the\lastp\temp}\nonzerotrue\fi
   \ifnonzero\repeat}
     
\roman (because of \unspace) has many more caveats than \ital and
\slant. As described in the TeXbook, \lastskip and its friends take
the last such item off the current list, returning zero if the last item
is not such an item. This makes it easy for \unspace to keep going back,
removing skips, kerns, and penalties until they are all zero, but it
leads to two problems. The first is that a zero item that you really
put in explicitly (probably for some obscure line-breaking reasons)
will not be passed through to \temp and thus will not be put back. The
second is that if you have a sequence of a few such zero items, \unspace
will stop there and won't get all the way back to where it should.
Furthermore, a whatsit or similar weird item will also stop \unspace.
The solution to the first two problems is to replace \hskip0pt with
\hskip1sp, \kern0pt with \kern1sp, and \penalty0 with \penalty1. Any
DVI program that shows a difference of 1sp doesn't round correctly.
     
Does this really eliminate italic corrections? In almost all cases.
If you're typing normal text, interspersed with \ital and \roman and
no weird stuff, all corrections will be inserted when they should.
However, you must be careful not to \write just before a \roman, or
the correction may not show up, and similarly watch out for the
cases mentioned above.
     
Future improvements: It would be nice to somehow let \ital figure out
exactly when the next character will be a period or comma, but I can't
find \lookintocrystalball in the TeXbook. Similarly, it seems to be
impossible to determine when a zero skip/kern/penalty is really so.
It would also be a cute trick to unspace past a \write command.
     
On a higher level, these macros could be worked into LaTeX's emphasis
environment. Of course, remember that if you define sequences like
\beginit...\endit (no braces), you will lose spaces at the end. Finally,
it is always cleaner to define a \begin...\end sequence than a \it{...}
sequence, because the argument does not have to be read and expanded
twice.
     
Please send any comments, improvements, error corrections, etc. to me.
     
---Dan Bernstein, bernsten@phoenix.princeton.edu
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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*                   Cumulative index: V1N1-V3N1                      *
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Addison-Wesley          V2N2.8       graphics insertion    V2N4.9
                        V2N3.2       headlines             V1N2.4
                        V3N1.2                             V1N5.5
advertising             V2N2.1                             V1N6.6
                        V2N3.1       italic corrections    V3N1.9
                        V2N4.1       letters               V2N4.8
alltt.sty               V2N4.6       outlines              V1N7.3
AmS-TeX                 V2N2.4       program listings      V1N4.2
 IMA document style     V2N4.3       resumes               V1N3.2
 SIAM document style    V2N4.3                             V1N6.2
amstexsiam.sty          V2N4.3       side by side pars     V1N4.5
_Another Look at TeX_   V2N6.5                             V1N5.2
\anti                   V2N1.9       table of contents     V1N2.3
anti.tex                V2N1.9                             V2N2.1
Applied Mathematics                                        V2N3.1
           Letters      V2N2.4       timelines             V1N7.5
article ideas           V1N2.2       weird paragraphs      V2N2.1
                        V1N5.3                             V2N3.1
                        V2N2.9                             V2N6.8
                        V2N3.5     meat, canned            V2N3.5
                        V2N6.5     MF
                        V3N1.1      version 1.4 announced  V2N4.2
                        V3N1.2      version 1.5 announced  V2N5.3
Biblical typesetting    V2N3.1      version 1.7 announced  V2N6.1
                        V2N4.1                             V3N1.3
bibplain.tex            V2N1.8     MFware                  V1N6.5
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blanks-sample.tex       V1N7.2     network services
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\bracket                V1N8.6                             V2N2.2
chemsample.tex          V2N3.6                             V2N3.5
\citer                  V2N1.8      LaTeX-Style            V1N1.4
CMS                                                        V2N6.2
  program piece         V2N3.8                             V3N1.3
                        V2N4.5      listserv@tamvm1        V2N1.3
\contentsline           V2N3.1                             V2N2.3
CTeX                    V2N6.5      netlib@anl-mcs.arpa    V2N4.3
CWEB                    V2N6.5      TeX-L                  V2N1.3
\dlap                   V1N3.4      TeXhax                 V2N1.3
                        V1N6.6                             V2N6.4
                        V1N7.5     \noalign                V1N8.3
documentation           V2N4.1     non-english TeX         V2N4.4
                        V3N1.2                             V2N5.1
dow.tex                 V1N5.5                             V2N5.6
\dowcomp                V1N5.5                             V2N5.7
drop.doc                V2N2.1                             V2N5.1
drop.sty                V2N2.1      Arabic                 V2N2.7
dropped initial         V2N2.1                             V2N6.5
DVI drivers                         Chinese                V2N2.7
 announcements                      German                 V2N5.6
  DVIview               V1N7.4                             V2N5.7
 driver lists           V2N2.3      Greek                  V2N2.7
                        V3N1.5      Hebrew                 V2N2.7
 DVIlaser/HP            V2N4.8                             V2N3.3
                        V2N4.9                             V2N6.5
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 standards              V1N5.4      Irish                  V2N5.9
                        V2N3.1      Japanese               V2N2.7
                        V3N1.4                             V2N3.7
DVIlaser/HP             V2N4.8      Marathi                V2N2.7
                        V2N4.9      Russian                V2N2.7
\epigram                V2N6.5      Tamil                  V2N2.7
eqnarray                V1N8.3      Turkish                V2N2.7
European TeX conference V2N1.4     outline.sty             V1N7.3
                        V3N1.6     outlines                V1N7.3
\EV                     V1N8.6     parskip.sty             V3N1.8
\fakebold               V1N1.3     PC-OUTLINE              V1N7.3
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\flathex                V2N3.6     PCTeX BBS               V1N8.1
fnote.tex               V1N1.3                             V2N1.7
\fnote                  V1N1.3     physics typesetting     V1N8.6
fonts                                                      V2N1.9
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 Bitstream fonts (PC)   V2N3.9     plain TeX
 Chinese                V2N2.7      and BibTeX             V2N1.8
 closest size in CMS    V2N3.8      and LaTeX              V2N6.5
                        V2N4.5      intricacies of pars    V2N2.1
 Computer Modern                                           V2N3.1
  in PostScript         V2N6.5      version 2.92 announced V2N4.2
  re-parameterization   V2N4.1     PTI Font Interface pkg. V2N3.9
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 custom                 V2N2.7                             V2N1.6
 Cyrillic               V2N2.7      results                V1N2.2
 Devanagari             V2N2.7                             V2N2.9
 Elvish                 V2N2.7     resumemac.tex           V1N3.2
 faking them            V1N1.3                             V1N6.2
                        V1N8.4     resumes                 V1N3.2
                        V2N2.7                             V1N6.2
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                        V2N3.9      TeXtures               V2N2.8
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                        V2N3.3     \roman                  V3N1.9
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                        V2N3.7                             V2N4.5
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                        V2N3.9     \slasha                 V1N8.6
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 Tamil                  V2N2.7     \split                  V1N4.5
 Turkish                V2N2.7                             V1N5.2
fortran.tex             V1N2.4     \sprite                 V1N8.4
Franklin Institute      V2N3.4     sprite.sty              V1N8.4
Franklin Medal          V2N3.4                             V2N2.7
grovelling              V1N5.3     spriteuse.tex           V1N8.4
                        V2N4.3     sqmac.sty               V2N4.7
headlinerule.tex        V1N2.4     sqsample.tex            V2N4.7
headlines                          subeqn.sty              V1N4.5
 plain TeX              V1N2.4     subequations            V1N4.5
                        V1N5.5     TeX
                        V1N6.6      and databases          V2N6.5
 LaTeX                  V3N1.6      future of              V2N3.1
Hebrew TeX              V2N3.3      implementations
hep.tex                 V1N8.6       IBM PC                V2N3.2
\hex                    V2N3.6                             V2N3.9
hexes.sty               V2N3.6                             V2N6.5
HP soft fonts           V2N3.9       Japanese              V2N2.7
HP2TeX                  V2N3.9                             V2N3.7
hyphenation             V2N5.2       Macintosh             V1N5.2
                        V2N5.1                             V2N2.8
imappt.sty              V2N4.3                             V2N3.2
index                   V2N2.1                             V2N6.5
                        V3N1.1       multi-lingual         V2N6.5
interactive TeXing      V2N3.1      in Europe              V3N1.1
_Interface_             V2N3.1                             V3N1.2
\ital                               in production          V2N6.5
italic corrections      V3N1.9      version 2.92 announced V2N4.2
\ket                    V1N8.6      version 2.93 announced V2N5.3
Knuth, Donald           V2N3.4      version 2.95 announced V2N6.1
laps.tex                V1N3.4      version 2.96 announced V3N1.3
Laserplot               V2N4.9      vs. WYSIWYG            V2N3.1
LaTeX                                                      V2N4.5
 2-d chemicals          V2N3.6     TeX Users Group
 adapting to other                  conference             V1N4.2
            languages   V2N5.7                             V2N2.5
 alltt environment      V2N4.6                             V2N5.4
 and plain TeX          V2N6.5                             V2N6.5
 annotated listings     V2N4.6      courses                V1N4.2
 commutative diagrams   V2N4.7                             V1N6.3
 dropped initial        V2N2.1                             V2N1.5
 eqnarray environment   V1N8.3     Textures                V1N5.2
 footings in            V3N1.8                             V2N2.8
 introduction           V1N3.3                             V2N3.2
 manual                 V2N6.3                             V2N6.5
                        V3N1.2     TeXt1                   V2N6.5
 modifying styles       V2N6.6     TeXware                 V1N6.5
                        V3N1.8                             V2N2.6
 paragraphs in          V3N1.8     timeline.sty            V1N7.5
 picture mode           V2N3.1                             V1N8.2
                        V2N3.6     timelines               V1N7.5
 style collection       V1N1.4                             V1N8.2
                        V2N6.2     tl-sample.tex           V1N7.5
 useful internal macros V1N7.5     toc.tex                 V1N2.3
                        V1N8.2     tocline.tex             V2N3.1
                        V3N1.6     trade typesetting       V2N6.5
 version 8-Feb-89                  TUGboat                 V1N4.3
             announced  V3N1.3                             V1N6.4
_LaTeX-eine                                                V1N8.5
         Einf\"uhrung_  V3N2.1                             V2N5.5
local TeX support       V2N4.1                             V3N1.7
                        V3N1.2     TurboTeX                V2N6.5
                        V2N6.5     typesetting services    V2N6.5
longtocline.tex         V2N2.1     \ulap                   V1N3.4
macros                                                     V1N6.6
 LaTeX                             \undertilde             V1N8.6
  2d chemicals          V2N3.6     undertilde.tex          V1N8.6
  commutative diagrams  V2N4.7     \unot                   V1N7.6
  sprite characters     V1N8.4     WEB
  subequations          V1N4.5      formatting
  timelines             V1N7.5       ss for identifiers    V1N7.6
                        V1N8.2      standard programs      V1N6.5
 plain TeX                         webmacss.tex            V1N7.6
  anti-particles        V2N1.9     weirdtitle.tex          V2N2.1
  bibliographies        V2N1.8     \xlap                   V1N3.4
  day of week           V1N5.5     \xsplit                 V1N4.5
  epigrams              V2N6.7                             V1N5.2
  fill in the blanks    V1N7.2     \ylap                   V1N3.4
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