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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/hitec/hitec_doc.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/hitec/hitec_doc.tex new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..19731cdc1f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/hitec/hitec_doc.tex @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +\documentclass{hitec} +\newcommand{\HT}{\textsc{\raisebox{0.1em}{h}\raisebox{-0.1em}{i}% + \raisebox{0.1em}{t}\raisebox{-0.1em}{e}\raisebox{0.1em}{c} }} +\title{The \HT class} +\author{Eli Billauer} +\company{The Company, Ltd} +\confidential{\textbf{-- Unlimited Distribution --}} +\usepackage{hyperref} % This line is readily ommited of it makes trouble +\begin{document} +\maketitle +\section{The general idea} +This short paper is mainly a demonstration page to show what the papers written with +this class will look like. + +The document class is a hack on the well-known \texttt{article} class, where pieces of \TeX +\hspace{0pt} code has been stolen from a couple of other classes. + +This class completes, in my opinion, the set of tools needed to use \LaTeX \hspace{0pt} +in a hi-tec environment, where Microsoft rules too often. I'm delighted by the fact +that Xemacs and \LaTeX \hspace{0pt} run in a win32 environment, and that proper pdf's +can be produced using utilities such as \texttt{pdflatex} or \texttt{dvipdfm}. +These allow me to get a Linux-feeling even when running Windows. Even better: I can +write technical documents the way I like, and produce pdf's that noone will complain about. + +But I discovered that there was no way to escape the academic look of the well-known +\texttt{article} document class. There are many other classes around, yes, but almost +all of them smell quite the same. Academy is not a four-letter word, but when a paper is +submitted to your boss, he better not get the wrong impression before even reading it. + +So, in order to solve \emph{my} problem of giving my documents a nice outfit, I started +the adventure of modifying \texttt{article}. While doing that, I understood why noone +else has yet published such a class... + +\section{hitec vs. article} +Papers that were compiled neatly as \texttt{article} are expected to give a fairly nice +result right away after changing to \HT. The only exception is that \HT doesn't work +with two-column documents. Such documents' compilation will be aborted with an error +message. + +Aside from that, the \HT class behaves a bit differently regarding document information: +\begin{itemize} +\item The \verb+\author+ command \emph{can not} be repeated to +present more than one author. This wasn't an attempt to reflect the loneliness of hi-tec +workers, as opposed to the academic world, where they always work in pairs. The reason +is technical: The author's name appears on all pages (hi-tec, right?) and there's no place +for a list of people. In the case of multiple authors (did you waste time working together?) +write them all in a single line. Remember that omitting an author can be a very painful +mistake, and this will happen with no warning when switching to \HT. +% +\item The \verb+\company+ command allows you not only to tell who you are, +but also who you're working for. +% +\item The \verb+\confidential+ command has been added, to allow companies +to mark their papers as confidential. +\end{itemize} +\section{Just a small tip} +If a pdf is your final target, going \verb+\usepackage{hyperref}+ +in the beginning of your document is very recommended. The \texttt{hyperref} package +will not only create web-like links where there are references to equations or sections, +but it also creates the well-known bookmark list. +\section{Summary} +The \HT class was designed to allow \LaTeX \hspace{0pt} to produce papers that suite +the hi-tec world, in functionality and appearance. Together with other free software, +a Windows-running PC can become a comfortable platform for creating impressive pdf documents +using well-tested tools. +\end{document} |