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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tabto-ltx/tabto-doc.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tabto-ltx/tabto-doc.tex index f0b4b35f97c..b073c7f3cdb 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tabto-ltx/tabto-doc.tex +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tabto-ltx/tabto-doc.tex @@ -1,37 +1,57 @@ -\documentclass[a4paper]{article} -\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry} -\usepackage{miscdoc} -\usepackage[scaled=0.85]{luximono} +\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article} +\usepackage[a4paper,margin=3cm]{geometry} +\setlength{\parskip}{2pt} +\makeatletter + +\newcommand\cs[1]{\texttt{\char`\\#1}} +\renewcommand\arg[1]{\nolinebreak[2]\mbox{\texttt{\string{#1\string}}}} +\newcommand\oarg[1]{\nolinebreak[2]\mbox{\texttt{[#1]}}} +\newcommand\sarg{\texttt{*}} + +\newcommand\meta[1]{\mbox{\ensuremath{\langle}\textit{#1}\ensuremath{\rangle}}} +\newcommand\prototype[1]{\par\pagebreak[1]\bigskip\begingroup + \noindent\samepage #1\par \nopagebreak \smallskip \endgroup \@afterheading} + +% meaningful names, as in faq.sty +\let\environment\texttt +\let\Package\textsf +\makeatother + \begin{document} \title{The \Package{tabto} package} \author{Donald Arseneau\thanks{Documentation file assembled by Robin Fairbairns}} -\date{May 2006, version 1.0} +\date{Mar 2013, version 1.3} \maketitle \section*{Tabbing to fixed positions in a paragraph} Two new text positioning commands are defined: \cs{tabto} and \cs{tab}. -\vspace*{\baselineskip} -\noindent\cmdinvoke{tabto}{\meta{length}} +\prototype{\cs{tabto}\arg{\meta{length}}} Tab to a position relative to the left margin in a paragraph (any indentation due to a list is part of the `margin' in this context). If the text on the line already goes past the desired position, the tab starts a new line and moves to the requested -horizontal position. +horizontal position. + -\vspace*{\baselineskip} -\noindent\cmdinvoke{tabto*}{\meta{length}} +\prototype{\cs{tabto}\sarg\arg{\meta{length}}} -Similar to \cs{tabto}, except it will perform backspacing, and over- -print previous text on the line whenever that text is already +Similar to \cs{tabto}, except it will perform backspacing, and +over-print previous text on the line whenever that text is already longer than the specified length (i.e., no linebreak is produced). Line-breaks are suppressed immediately after \cs{tabto} or \cs{tabto*}. -\vspace*{\baselineskip} -\noindent\cs{tab} +The length register \cs{CurrentLineWidth} will report the width +of the existing text on the line, and it may be used in the +\meta{length} argument (using calc.sty, for example). Also, there +is \cs{TabPrevPos} which stores the \cs{CurrentLineWidth} from the +previous tab command, and can be used to return to that position +if no line breaks have occurred in between. + +\prototype{\cs{tab}} Tab to the next tab-stop chosen from a list of tab positions, in the traditional style of typewriters. A \cs{tab} will always move @@ -43,22 +63,21 @@ ensuing text does not fit well in the remaining space. The tab-stop positions are declared using either \cs{TabPositions} or \cs{NumTabs}: -\vspace*{\baselineskip} -\noindent\cmdinvoke{TabPositions}{\meta{length}, \meta{length}, ... \meta{length}} +\prototype{\cs{TabPositions}\arg{\meta{length}, \meta{length}, + \textrm{\dots}\meta{length}}} Declares the tab stops as a comma-separated list of positions relative to the left margin. A tab-stop at \texttt{0pt} is implicit, and need not be listed. -\vspace*{\baselineskip} -\noindent\cmdinvoke{NumTabs}{\meta{number}} +\prototype{\cs{NumTabs}\arg{\meta{number}}} Declares a list of \meta{number} equally-spaced tabs, starting at the left margin and spanning \cs{linewidth}. For example -\cmdinvoke{NumTabs}{2} declares tab-stops at \texttt{0pt} and +\cs{NumTabs}\arg{2} declares tab-stops at \texttt{0pt} and \texttt{0.5}\cs{linewidth}, the same as -\cmdinvoke{TabPositions}{\texttt{0pt}, \texttt{0.5}\cs{linewidth}} -or \cmdinvoke{TabPositions}{\texttt{0.5}\cs{linewidth}} +\cs{TabPositions}\arg{0pt, 0.5\cs{linewidth}} +or \cs{TabPositions}\arg{0.5\cs{linewidth}}. \end{document} |