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Merchants, common sailors, -captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, -naval officers\cite{article-full} of all countries, and the -Governments of several States -on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter. - -For some time past vessels had been met by ``an enormous thing,'' -a long object, spindle-shaped, occasionally phosphorescent, -and infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale. - -\section{This section is not in the original text, and we give it a very very long title. No, even longer than that.} - -Here, we're just exercising the gatech-thesis-losa.sty style, which -helps create a List of Symbols or Abbreviations. To add an item to -the \losa{LOSA}, you need to create an entry in the database file -specified by the \texttt{\bs{}losafile} command. Then, use the -\texttt{\bs{}losa\{\}} command within the bodytext. This will both -typeset the symbol/abbreviation, and add its definition to the -\losa{LOSA}. So, here are some bogus abbreviaions: We refer -to \losa{VLSI} and to \losa{gnu} and various other things like -\losa{neuroeng} and \losa{PE}s. Finally, you should be sure to read -the \losa{losahang} note. - -\section{Another added section} - -Now, the List of Symbols or Abbreviations is different from a Glossary -or List of Nomenclature. In the former, the description text is rigidly -separate from the symbols themselves. In a glossary, since the items -are typically longer, this kind of separation is impractical. Use the -gatech-thesis-losa style and the \texttt{\bs{}losa\{\}} command for -Lists of Symbols or Abbreviations; use the gatech-thesis-gloss style -and the \texttt{\bs{}gloss\{\}} command for glossaries. Now, here's -a few words to exercise the glossary: \gloss{reallylongword}, -\gloss{myelin}, \gloss{neuroeng}, and \gloss{frobozz}. Oh, and -\gloss{glosshang}. - -\section{back to the original text} - -The facts relating to this apparition (entered in various log-books) -agreed in most respects as to the shape of the object or creature in question, -the untiring rapidity of its movements, its surprising power of locomotion, -and the peculiar life with which it seemed endowed. If it was a whale, -it surpassed in size all those hitherto classified in science. -Taking into consideration the mean of observations made at divers -times---rejecting the timid estimate of those who assigned to this object -a length of two hundred feet, equally with the exaggerated opinions -which set it down as a mile in width and three in length---we might fairly -conclude that this mysterious being surpassed greatly all dimensions -admitted by the learned ones of the day, if it existed at all. -And that it DID exist was an undeniable fact; and, with that tendency -which disposes the human mind in favour of the marvellous, we can understand -the excitement produced in the entire world by this supernatural apparition. -As to classing it in the list of fables, the idea was out of the question. - -\section{Yet another section that's not really in the text} - -Here, we're testing the index stuff. The \texttt{@ sign}\index{\texttt{"@} sign} -is one item. There's also the width of rules\index{dimensions!rule!width} and -the color or weight of boxes\index{box!parameters}. -PostScript\index{fonts!PostScript} -is a font format. If I had more energy I could list the -dimensions of a table\index{dimensions!table}, and talk about the height -of a rule\index{dimensions!rule!height}. -Then, there's the size of figures to worry about\index{dimensions!figure} -and don't forget the \index*{box}. (See, here I used the starred from of -\gtCom{index} like so: -\verb+\index*{box}+ -and it typeset ``box'' for me. -Now, usually you don't want the starred version of the -\gtCom{index} command---it's only useful for single level index entries -(that is, those that don't have a `!' character in them, because \gtCom{index*} -will typeset the whole thing, like this: -\verb+\index*{foo!bar}+ -gives \index*{foo!bar}. Silly. - -Here's a fun one: \LaTeX{}\index{LaTeX@\LaTeX{} program} (here I -used the \@ symbol in the \texttt{\bs{}index} command, because I -wanted to alphabetize \LaTeX{} as LaTeX, and not as a symbol. -So, I used this command: -\texttt{\bs{}LaTeX\{\}\linebreak[0]{}\bs{}index\{\linebreak[0]{}LaTeX@\linebreak[0]{}\bs{}LaTeX\{\} program\}}. -\comment{note that I did NOT use the \verb+x+ command above; verb typesets -in an mbox which cannot be broken across lines, and that command is too -long to place on one line or the other. By hand-escaping the backslash and brace characters, the text can be broken across lines with a liberal application of linebreak commands} -Now, a few more index entries: Computer Modern\index{fonts!Computer Modern} -is a font. We can also talk of the size of boxes\index{box!dimensions of} -and the depth\index{rule!depth} and \index{rule!width} of rules. Also, -let's try to reference the PostScript\index{fonts!PostScript} fonts again. -Note that the starred form of \texttt{\bs{}index} is unique to the -\texttt{index.sty} package, on which the \texttt{gatech-thesis-index.sty} -package is built. The starred \texttt{\bs{}index} is not available in -``normal'' \LaTeX. - -\section{Back to the real text} - -\begin{equation} -E=mc^2 -\end{equation} - -On the 20th of July, 1866, the steamer Governor Higginson, -of the Calcutta and Burnach Steam Navigation Company, had met -this moving mass five miles off the east coast of Australia. -Captain Baker thought at first that he was in the presence of an -unknown sandbank; he even prepared to determine its exact position -when two columns of water, projected by the mysterious object, -shot with a hissing noise a hundred and fifty feet up into the air. -Now, unless the sandbank had been submitted to the intermittent -eruption of a geyser, the Governor Higginson had to do neither -more nor less than with an aquatic mammal, unknown till then, -which threw up from its blow-holes columns of water mixed with -air and vapour.\cite{inbook-full}\cite{book-full} - -Similar facts were observed on the 23rd of July in the same year, -in the Pacific Ocean, by the Columbus, of the West India -and Pacific Steam Navigation Company. But this extraordinary -creature could transport itself from one place to another -with surprising velocity; as, in an interval of three days, -the Governor Higginson and the Columbus had observed it at -two different points of the chart, separated by a distance -of more than seven hundred nautical leagues. - -\section{extra section marker} - -Fifteen days later, two thousand miles farther off, the Helvetia, -of the Compagnie-Nationale, and the Shannon, of the Royal -Mail Steamship Company, sailing to windward in that portion -of the Atlantic lying between the United States and Europe, -respectively signalled the monster to each other in 42@ 15' N. lat. -and 60@ 35' W. long. In these simultaneous observations they -thought themselves justified in estimating the minimum length -of the mammal at more than three hundred and fifty feet, -as the Shannon and Helvetia were of smaller dimensions than it, -though they measured three hundred feet over all. - -Now the largest whales, those which frequent those parts of the sea round -the Aleutian, Kulammak, and Umgullich islands, have never exceeded the length -of sixty yards, if they attain that. - -\begin{equation} -E=mc^2 -\end{equation} - -In every place of great resort the monster was the fashion. -They sang of it in the cafes, ridiculed it in the papers, and represented -it on the stage. All kinds of stories were circulated regarding it. -There appeared in the papers caricatures of every gigantic and -imaginary creature, from the white whale, the terrible ``Moby Dick'' -of sub-arctic regions, to the immense kraken, whose tentacles could entangle -a ship of five hundred tons and hurry it into the abyss of the ocean. -The legends of ancient times were even revived. - -Then burst forth the unending argument between the believers and the -unbelievers in the societies of the wise and the scientific journals. -``The question of the monster'' inflamed all minds. Editors of -scientific journals, quarrelling with believers in the supernatural, -spilled seas of ink during this memorable campaign, some even drawing blood; -for from the sea-serpent they came to direct personalities. - -\section{another section marker} - -During the first months of the year 1867 the question seemed buried, -never to revive, when new facts were brought before the public. -It was then no longer a scientific problem to be solved, but a real -danger seriously to be avoided. The question took quite another shape. -The monster became a small island, a rock, a reef, but a reef of indefinite -and shifting proportions. - -\subsection{a subsection marker} - -On the 5th of March, 1867, the Moravian, of the Montreal Ocean Company, -finding herself during the night in 27@ 30' lat. and 72@ 15' long., struck -on her starboard quarter a rock, marked in no chart for that part of the sea. -Under the combined efforts of the wind and its four hundred horse power, -it was going at the rate of thirteen knots. Had it not been for the superior -strength of the hull of the Moravian, she would have been broken by the shock -and gone down with the 237 passengers she was bringing home from Canada. - -The accident happened about five o'clock in the morning, as the day -was breaking. The officers of the quarter-deck hurried to the after-part -of the vessel. They examined the sea with the most careful attention. -They saw nothing but a strong eddy about three cables' length distant, -as if the surface had been violently agitated. The bearings of the place were -taken exactly, and the Moravian continued its route without apparent damage. -Had it struck on a submerged rock, or on an enormous wreck? They could -not tell; but, on examination of the ship's bottom when undergoing repairs, -it was found that part of her keel was broken. - -\subsection{another subsection} - -This fact, so grave in itself, might perhaps have been forgotten -like many others if, three weeks after, it had not been re-enacted -under similar circumstances. But, thanks to the nationality of -the victim of the shock, thanks to the reputation of the company to -which the vessel belonged, the circumstance became extensively circulated. - -The 13th of April, 1867, the sea being beautiful, the breeze favourable, -the Scotia, of the Cunard Company's line, found herself in 15@ 12' long. -and 45@ 37' lat. She was going at the speed of thirteen knots and a half. - -At seventeen minutes past four in the afternoon, whilst the passengers were -assembled at lunch in the great saloon, a slight shock was felt on the hull -of the Scotia, on her quarter, a little aft of the port-paddle. - -\begin{figure}% - \centering - \includegraphics[width=100bp]{jules-verne-test}% - \caption[A test figure. This is a test figure inserted into this text. This is a test figure inserted into this text. This is a test figure inserted into this text.] - {This is a test figure inserted into this text.}% - \label{fig:test1}% -\end{figure} - -The Scotia had not struck, but she had been struck, and seemingly -by something rather sharp and penetrating than blunt. -The shock had been so slight that no one had been alarmed, -had it not been for the shouts of the carpenter's watch, -who rushed on to the bridge, exclaiming, ``We are sinking! we -are sinking!'' At first the passengers were much frightened, -but Captain Anderson hastened to reassure them. The danger could -not be imminent. The Scotia, divided into seven compartments -by strong partitions, could brave with impunity any leak. -Captain Anderson went down immediately into the hold. -He found that the sea was pouring into the fifth compartment; -and the rapidity of the influx proved that the force of the water -was considerable. Fortunately this compartment did not hold -the boilers, or the fires would have been immediately extinguished. -Captain Anderson ordered the engines to be stopped at once, -and one of the men went down to ascertain the extent of the injury. -Some minutes afterwards they discovered the existence of a -large hole, two yards in diameter, in the ship's bottom. -Such a leak could not be stopped; and the Scotia, her paddles -half submerged, was obliged to continue her course. She was then -three hundred miles from Cape Clear, and, after three days' delay, -which caused great uneasiness in Liverpool, she entered the basin -of the company. - -\subsubsection{a subsubsection with a really really really really really really really really really really long title. I mean a really really really really really really really really really really long title. No, even longer than that.} - -The engineers visited the Scotia, which was put in dry dock. -They could scarcely believe it possible; at two yards and a half below -water-mark was a regular rent, in the form of an isosceles triangle. -The broken place in the iron plates was so perfectly defined -that it could not have been more neatly done by a punch. -It was clear, then, that the instrument producing the perforation -was not of a common stamp and, after having been driven with -prodigious strength, and piercing an iron plate 1 3/8 inches thick, -had withdrawn itself by a backward motion. - -\subsubsection{a subsubsection with shorter title} - -Such was the last fact, which resulted in exciting once more the torrent -of public opinion. From this moment all unlucky casualties which could -not be otherwise accounted for were put down to the monster. - -\section{a final section} - -Upon this imaginary creature rested the responsibility of all -these shipwrecks, which unfortunately were considerable; -for of three thousand ships whose loss was annually recorded -at Lloyd's, the number of sailing and steam-ships supposed -to be totally lost, from the absence of all news, amounted to -not less than two hundred! - -Now, it was the ``monster'' who, justly or unjustly, was accused -of their disappearance, and, thanks to it, communication between -the different continents became more and more dangerous. -The public demanded sharply that the seas should at any price be -relieved from this formidable cetacean.\footnote{Member of the whale family.} - |