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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/tex/context/sample/samples.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/tex/context/sample/samples.tex new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..6e217a59251 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/tex/context/sample/samples.tex @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +\starttext + +The sample directory contains a few files with quotes that can be used +while testing styles. + +I'll complete this file when I've reorganized my books and audio cd's. + +If someone makes a nice bibtex file of these, the quotes can also be +used in testing bibliographic references and citations. + +\starttabulate[|l|l|p|] +\NC \bf file \NC \bf author \NC \bf source \NC \NR +\HL +%NC stork.tex \NC David F. Stork \NC \NC \NR +\NC knuth.tex \NC Donald E. Knuth \NC \NC \NR +\NC tufte.tex \NC Edward R. Tufte \NC \NC \NR +\NC reich.tex \NC Steve Reich \NC City Life (1995) \NC \NR +\NC materie.tex \NC Louis Andriessen \NC De Materie \NC \NR +\NC douglas.tex \NC Douglas R. Hofstadter \NC \NC \NR +\NC dawkins.tex \NC Dawkins \NC \NC \NR +\NC ward.tex \NC Peter D. Ward \NC The Life and Death of Planet Earth \NC \NR +\NC zapf.tex \NC Hermann Zapf \NC About micro-typography and the hz-program, \endgraf + Electronic Publishing, vol. 6(3), \endgraf + 283-288 (September 1993) \NC \NR +\NC bryson.tex \NC Bill Bryson \NC A Short History of Nearly Everything, \endgraf + Random House, 2003 \NC \NR +\NC davis.tex \NC Kenneth C. Davis \NC Don't Know Much About History, \endgraf + Everything You Need to Know About American + History but Never Learned, \endgraf + HarperCollins, 2003 \NC \NR +\NC thuan.tex \NC Trinh Xuan Thuan \NC Chaos and Harmony, Perspectives on Scientific + Revolutions of the Twentieth Century, \endgraf + Oxford University Press, 2001 \NC \NR +\NC hawking.tex \NC Steve W. Hawking \NC The Universe in a Nutshell, Bantam Books + Random House, 2001 \NC \NR +\NC linden.tex \NC Eugene Linden \NC The Winds of Change, Climate, Weather, and the + Destruction of Civilizations, \endgraf + Simon \& Schuster, 2006, p.106 \NC \NR +\NC weisman.tex \NC Alan Weisman \NC The World Without Us, \endgraf + Thomas Dunne Books, 2007, p.160 \NC \NR +\NC montgomery.tex \NC David R Montgomery \NC Dirt, The Erosion of Civilizations, \endgraf + University of California Press, 2007, p.199 \NC \NR +\NC carrol.tex \NC Sean B. Carrol \NC The Making of the Fittest, \endgraf + Quercus, London, 2006 \NC \NR +%NC jojomayer.tex \NC Jojo Mayer \NC Between Zero & One, www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSj298iBjBY \NC \NR +%NC schwarzenegger.tex \NC Arnold Schwarzenegger \NC Several place on the World Wide Web. \NC \NR +\stoptabulate + +% Tufte: This quote will always produce hyphenated text, apart from the content, +% it's a pretty good test case for protruding. + +% Reich: This is a list of the voice samples from Steve Reich's 1995 composition City Life. + +% Ward: I should find a quote in the extremely well written Rare Earth as well. All Wards +% books excell. + +% A Short History of Nearly Everything: I wish that I had the memory to remember this book +% verbatim. + +% Chaos and Harmony: very nice and well written book, but the typography is rather bad: +% quite visible inter-character spacing in a text that can be typeset quite well by \TeX. + +% The Universe in a Nutshell: a beautiful designed book, (companion of A Short History +% of Time). + +% The World Without Us: A properly typeset, very readable book. Read it and you'll look at +% the world around you differently (and a bit more freightened). + +% Dirt, The Erosion of Civilizations: one of those books that you buy immediately after +% reading a few sentences. Also one of those books that every politician should read. + +% The Making of the Fittest: nice sample for color ans subsentence testing. A very +% readable book but unfortunately it has inter-character spacing. + +% The Schwarzenegger letter was originally typeset at a width equivalent to 16.1cm in +% a default ConTeXt setup. + +\stoptext |