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Introduction
This is the manual of a macropackage I wrote for printing the covers for
cassettes. It's quite flexible and quite easy to learn. I tried to keep
this manual short, so it won't cost you that much to print it. -- Stijn
Raaijmakers.
General form of a tape-file
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\input <size-file>.cas
\input cascover
\language <language>*
\begintape
\begincontents
\beginside <Side>: <Title> - <Author> (<Dolby>)
\\<Title> - <Author>, <Time>*
...
\title <Title> - <Author>*
\\<Title> - <Author>, <Time>*
...
\endside
\beginside <Side>: <Title> - <Author> (<Dolby>)
...
\endside
\endcontents
\beginfront
\fronttitle <Title> - <Author>*
...
\endfront
\beginflap
...
\endflap
\endtape
\begintape
...
\endtape
\bye
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The lines marked * can be omitted. All <words> can be omitted, but
sometimes have to be replaced by {}, see below.
Comment and empty frames
The frames are: \beginside...\endside, \beginfront...\endfront and
\beginflap...\endflap. In each of these frames you can put normal comment,
because each frame is like a miniscule page. If you put a \title or \\
after comment, you have to put a \par (empty line) between them. If you
want a frame to be empty, you have to put \empty between \begin and \end.
About formatted input macros
In the figure above you see a lot of things like
`\title <Title> - <Author>'.
This means you have to type `\title', <space>, some words, ` - ', another
word (one) and a <space> (which is usually a return). You could type, for
instance:
\title Pork soda - Primus
If the last part of a line like this contains a space (i.e., if `Primus'
were `Mucky Pup'), you'd have to put it between braces, so it would look
like this:
\title Pork soda - {Mucky Pup}
If the first part (Pork soda) happens to contain the exact text it should
be followed by (` - ' in this example), you have to put it between braces
too (so TeX won't see the first ` - '):
\title {Pork - soda} - {Mucky Pup}
If something goes wrong here, you'll get some error message like `missing
argument,' `use of ... doesn't match it's definition' or `runaway argument.'
If some part is enclosed by <space>s, you have to replace it by an empty
group ({}), because two <space>s in a row is just the same as one <space>.
Have a look at page 202 of *the TeXbook* and the example files to find out
more about this.
Size and dimension of the cover
the margins and the size of it. You can create a library of .cas files, in
which you define different sizes for tape covers. They define the heights of
the contents, front and flap. You can also change the margins, but you need
pretty small margins to fit everything on the cover. Have a look at
normal.cas and small.cas.
Changing the font
You can change the current fontsize with the commands \small, \normalsize
and \large, which work as in LaTeX. You can change the fontstyle with the
commands \rm, \it and \em. You can switch to condensed form using \cond.
This only works for the normal-sized roman font, as this is the only one
which sometimes needs to be condensed. Condensed text looks ugly, but will
make sure long titles and author-names can be used. The macros don't
switch to condensed text automaticly, because some people might rather
abbrieviate long titles and names.
If you want to change the definition of the fonts, you only need to change
the file cascfont.tex. To get the font called cmrcd7, just copy the file
cmr7.mf to cmrcd7.mf, edit cmrcd7.mf and change the lines
font_identifier:="CMR"; font_size 7pt#;
u#:=15.5/36pt#; % unit width
to
font_identifier:="CMRCD"; font_size 7pt#;
u#:=.75 * 15.5/36pt#; % unit width
Suggestions and extensions
Use an \empty front so you can draw a logo. Use the flap to enter
information like the type of tape used. I made a macro, so I can type
\SA90 to get {\large TDK SA90\qquad}.
More about the macro's
All the frames mentioned above create a \parbox as in LaTeX. You can type
normal text in them, as demonstrated in example 2. The commands
\begintape, \endcontents, \endfront and \endflap create a horizontal line.
This means you don't have to put them in the order used above. You could
make a tapecover with a double frame to put the songs on, by simply
repeating the contents part.
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