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<title>TeX showcase - TeX Users Group</title>
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<h2>The TeX showcase</h2>
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<p>This is the TeX showcase, edited by <strong>Gerben Wierda</strong>. It
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contains <em>extreme</em> examples of what you can do with TeX, the
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typesetting engine from Donald Knuth, world famous mathematician, computer
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scientist and above all well known for TeX. I will try to keep this showcase
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small. For remarks on submissions, see at the end of this document.</p>
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<p>For an introduction to TeX, please visit the <a
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href="http://tug.org/begin.html">TUG "Getting Started" page</a>, and
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especially <a href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/first-latex-doc">the section on
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the first LaTeX document</a>, and in this section the <a
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href="http://mirrors.ctan.org/info/first-latex-doc/first-latex-doc.pdf">PDF
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file of example first document with embedded explanation</a>. I want to add to
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this:
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<p>You can compare a Word Processor (e.g. MS Word) setup to a TeX setup as a
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Camper (or RV) versus having a house and a car. The Camper is for everything:
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you can live in it, you can drive with it and you can look at it. The Word
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Processor is like a Camper: it does editing, formatting/typesetting, and
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displaying. It is not excellent at any of these functions, but the combination
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is pretty neat. In a TeX setup, these functions are separated, like with
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having a house and a car. You have a separate editor of your own liking to
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edit, and you have TeX to do the actual typesetting/formatting. Especially
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when using macro packages like LaTeX or ConTeXt, you write
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</em>conceptually</em> and not visually and you leave the visual aspects to
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the TeX engine, which (generally) produces a PDF file. You need another
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program again (a PDF Viewer like Acrobat or Preview on the Mac) to read or
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print the result. Word Processors have improved on their typesetting
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algorithms, but they still do not reach the quality level of TeX just yet (I
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am writing this on Jan 2, 2014). TeX still produces the best looking typeset
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text and mathematical formulas on the planet. And writing conceptually instead
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of visually is really nice. You can concentrate on content and you do not have
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to worry about layout.
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<p>Some things are, however, difficult to do in TeX. Mostly these are the
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kind of things where you want very fine-grained control over exact positioning
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of images, wrapping around these images, etc. You can do this in TeX, but it
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is often (very) cumbersome to get it right and changes may be a lot of work.
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For this, people use (very expensive) Desktop Publishing (layout) setups, like
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Adobe InDesign (which generally also have better typesetting algorithms than
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Word Processors, (almost) matching the quality of TeX) in text (though not in
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mathematical formulas). TeX, on the other hand, is free. The showcase shows
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(amongst other things) the limits of what people have been able to do with TeX
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in the 'special effects' category. Some of these are really TeX-specific
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tricks (e.g <a href="diminuendo.pdf">this example (PDF)</a>, which only works
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because TeX is a programming language, zoom in as far as you can, don't try to do this in MS Word, InDesign etc.).
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<p> In this showcase, you will not only find examples of material prepared
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with TeX proper, but also with macro packages like LaTeX, ConTeXt and with
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related programs like METAPOST. And though TeX is a typesetting language, you
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will find graphics and even an MPEG movie. </p>
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<p>Showcases are mostly PDF files. Some PDF files contain tricks that only
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work in certain PDF-viewers, e.g. they might contain automatic changes in the
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page that work in certain versions of Acrobat and only when certain
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preferences are set. The descriptions will contain special instructions if
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any.</p>
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<p>Most examples come with some sort of source. <em>These sources are not
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guaranteed to compile, they are only there for visual inspection.</em> Some
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may compile, but some may have parts missing.</p>
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<p> Some of these examples were prepared using proprietary fonts or
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software that must be purchased. For a discussion of font usage with
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TeX, including a sampler of available free fonts, please see this
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<a href="http://www.tug.org/fonts/">separate font page</a>.
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</p>
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<p>One word on the sections. These are generated automatically from a database
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and their titles speak for themselves. The exception is the section <i>Yannis
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Haralambous</i>. Yannis is famous in the world of TeX for his work on
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typesetting several languages (like Greek and Hebrew) with TeX. He donated a
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series of samples. The Hebrew and Syrian fonts are bitmaps, they might not
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look perfect in all circumstances.</p>
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<h3>Index</h3>
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<ul>
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<li> <a href="#yannis">Yannis Haralambous</a>
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<li> <a href="#math">Mathematics</a>
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<li> <a href="#dynamics">Dynamic documents</a>
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<li> <a href="#languages">Languages of the world</a>
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<li> <a href="#graphics">Graphics</a>
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<li> <a href="#text">General Typesetting</a>
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<li> <a href="#misc">Miscellanous</a>
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</ul>
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<h3><a name=yannis>Yannis Haralambous</a></h3>
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<table border="1" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="4">
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<tr><th>Case (click for document)</th><th>Source</th><th>What it is</th></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample08.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample08.jpg" alt="yannis_sample08.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>An Arabic text written by Idris Samawi Hamid, with full Arabic vowelization.
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The font used is Monotype Naskhi with hundreds of additions designed by
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Atelier Fluxus Virus.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample09.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample09.jpg" alt="yannis_sample09.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>The beginning of the Book of Genesis, in Hebrew. Typesetting and font are from
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the Tiqwah system, by Yannis Haralambous. The critical appartus is taken from
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the <i>Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia</i>. The font is designed in Metafont
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(this explains the bad display by Acrobat).
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample05.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample05.jpg" alt="yannis_sample05.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>A page from the journal <i>Inscriptiones graecae</i>. The Greek font used is
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New Hellenic, with additional glyphs designed by Atelier Fluxus Virus for
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epigraphical texts.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample07.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample07.jpg" alt="yannis_sample07.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>The same Arabic inscription in four styles: Nastaliq, Diwani, Thuluth and
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Ruqaah.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample01.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample01.jpg" alt="yannis_sample01.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>A page from the book <i>Mikael</i> by Theophan�s Ioannou, published in Greece
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by Indiktos (May 2003). Theophan�s is a new author and good friend of ours. He
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has commissioned the Atelier Fluxus Virus to design the font used in this
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sample, out of the <i>Complete Works of Aristotle</i> edited by Bekker in
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Leipzig, in the early 19th century. We have called this font <i>Bekkeriana</i>
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in honour of Bekker, and all of Theophan�s' works will be published in it.
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This requires a lot of courage, because in contemporary Greece---contrarily to
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Europe---there is great reluctance against typefaces older than 50-70 years.
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We hope that this editorial attempt will bring the Greek public of readers
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closer to their national typographical heritage, and not only for facsilimiles
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or simulations of historical typography, but also for modern texts, as is this
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one.
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<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample13.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample13.jpg" alt="yannis_sample13.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>A text in Amharic from <i>Miraculorum S. Georgii Magelomartyris</i>, from the
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collection <i>Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium</i>, with critical
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apparatus.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample02.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample02.jpg" alt="yannis_sample02.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>These two pages are taken from the Greek edition of Giambattista Bodoni's
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<i>Manuale Typographico</i> (published by Agra, in 2003), a landmark in the
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history of typography. The font used in the title page has been designed by
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Atelier Fluxus Virus especially for this occasion: it is the genuine Greek
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capital letters typeface of Bodoni, as it is presented in this very book. (continued with next sample)
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample04.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample04.jpg" alt="yannis_sample04.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>A double page (original ancient Greek text and modern Greek translation) from
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Lucian's <i>Alexander or the False Prophet</i>, published by Agra (collection
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<i>Melaina Chol�</i> in 2003. The font used for the ancient Greek text is
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Monotype Porson, except for the capital letters which have been designed by
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Atelier Fluxus Virus out of 19th century Oxford editions. Notice that capitals
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are straight while lowercase letters are slanted. The fonts used for the
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modern Greek text are Monotype Greek 90 and Greek 91.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample10.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample10.jpg" alt="yannis_sample10.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>A text in Judeo-spanish, from <i>The Judeo-Spanish Ballad Chapbooks of Yacob
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Abraham Yoná</i>. Text in quadratic and Rashi script.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample11.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample11.jpg" alt="yannis_sample11.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>A page of Bar Hebraeus, <i>Chronicon Ecclesiasticum</i> in Syriac (Serto
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script) and Latin translation. The Syriac part had been typeset using Sabra
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system (by Yannis Haralambous).
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample06.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample06.jpg" alt="yannis_sample06.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>A page from Ibn Rush's <i>Commentaries on Aristotle's Book of Categories</i>,
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in Arabic. On the upper side, the text by Ibn Rush, on the lower side the
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Arabic version of Aristotle's text. Each one of these parallel texts has a
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critical apparatus.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample12.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample12.jpg" alt="yannis_sample12.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>A text in Coptic, from <i>Apocryphon Johannis in the Nag Hammadi Codex II</i>.
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The font used is Monotype Coptic.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample14.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample14.jpg" alt="yannis_sample14.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>From a critical edition of Saranadeva's <i>Durghatavrtti</i>, in Sanskrit
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(Devanagari script).
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample03.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample03.jpg" alt="yannis_sample03.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>(continued) The
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font used in the text is a very special Greek font, designed by Atelier Fluxus
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Virus out of hot lead types. It is called <i>dekaexaria</i>, which means "16
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points", and is a hot lead typeface which has never been adapted to Linotype
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or Monotype machines and has been used very frequently in chapter titles or
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cover pages, and for entire books in bibliophilic collections. It is an
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extremely vivid font and has very special accents and kernings. It is one of
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these fonts where each individual glyph looks badly drawn, but the global
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image of text looks very appealing. There is only one hic: it has nothing to
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do with Bodoni, and is rather historically connected to the Didot school.
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</td></tr>
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</table>
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<h3><a name=math>Mathematics</a></h3>
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<table border="1" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="4">
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<tr><th>Case (click for document)</th><th>Source</th><th>What it is</th></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="cheat.pdf"><img src="cheat.jpg" alt="cheat.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="cheat-20131114.tar.gz">cheat-20131114.tar.gz</a> </td><td>Note, the source is a gzip compressed tar archive.
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<p>Submitter <strong>Martin Jansche</strong> writes:
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<p>Here's an example of TeX formatting many many equations under tight space
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constraints: Steve Seiden's theoretical computer science cheat sheet,
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which used to be available from http://bit.csc.lsu.edu/~seiden/#cheat.
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Quoting the web page:
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<blockquote>
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I grant permission for you to reproduce this cheat sheet, and
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redistribute it for educational purposes only. You may not reproduce
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it for profit. If you reproduce it, you must not alter or delete my
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copyright.
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</blockquote>
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GW 2003: I have been informed that its author, Steve Seiden, died in 2002 as the
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result of an accident while riding his bike. As I cannot ask for permission anymore, I have taken the liberty of fixing errors reported to me.
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<p>GW 2013: I have been informed by Raphael Reitzig of two errors, which have been fixed (notes in the .tex files)
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<p>GW 2016: The current distribution does not properly compile, Escher's Knot is missing. I include a fixed pdf, but the source still needs repairing. Help welcome.
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</table>
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<h3><a name=dynamics>Dynamic documents</a></h3>
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<table border="1" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="4">
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<tr><th>Case (click for document)</th><th>Source</th><th>What it is</th></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="Automaton.pdf"><img src="Automaton.jpg" alt="Automaton.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="Automaton.tex">Automaton.tex</a> </td><td>This example shows dynamic output created with TeX. Not all previewers will be
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able to display the dynamism in this document, e.g. Preview.app on Mac OS X
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cannot handle it. But Acrobat can. Open it, set it to Full Screen and hit
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return a couple of times.
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Submitted by <strong>Stephan Lehmke</strong>. He writes: a bit of finite
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automata simulation done with PSTricks (automata package).
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="macqtexDemo.pdf"><img src="macqtexDemo.jpg" alt="macqtexDemo.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>This example does not work in all PDF-viewers (especially Mac OS X Preview.app
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does not handle this). Use Acrobat. Submitter <strong>Frances Griffin</strong>
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writes:
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<p>This is an example of the mathematics quizzes we are using at Macquarie
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University, Sydney, Australia. It uses JavaScript inside a PDF document, so
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that the questions are automatically marked, and on completion of the quiz,
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the correct answers and fully worked solutions become visible.
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<p>We have set up an automated system which generates random parameters for
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the questions, pdfTeXs the quiz and serves a unique and personalised
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version of it to the student. The demo quiz here is fully self contained,
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but the quizzes we use for the students send the scores back to our server
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to be recorded.
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<p>It is based on DP Story's exerquiz package, along with some customizations
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we have made, and pdfscreen. There are more like this <a
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href="http://rutherglen.ics.mq.edu.au/~macqtex">here</a>.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="LorenzAttractor.pdf"><img src="LorenzAttractor.jpg" alt="LorenzAttractor.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="LorenzAttractor.tex">LorenzAttractor.tex</a> </td><td>This example does not work in all readers (e.g. it does not work in Mac OS X
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10.2's Preview.app), but it works in Acrobat. Click on the picture and see it
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rotate.
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<p>Submitted by <strong>Jochen Skupin</strong>
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="Laurana.pdf"><img src="Laurana.jpg" alt="Laurana.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="Laurana_tex.zip">Laurana_tex.zip</a> </td><td><p>Embedding 3D objects in LaTeX. Note: does not display in Safari. Does
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display in Adobe Acrobat
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<p><strong>Paolo Cignoni</strong> writes:
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<p>We have developed <a href="http://meshlab.sourceforge.net">MeshLab</a>, an
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open source tool that can be used to convert 3D object in a format that is
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directly embeddable into a pdf through the movie15 latex package.
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<p>Attached a pdf produced with the above tools and a zip with the latex
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sources for re-creating it
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="calvec.pdf"><img src="calvec.jpg" alt="calvec.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="calvec.tex">calvec.tex</a> </td><td>As for most dynamics, the workings depend on your viewer.
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<p>Submitter <strong>Orlando C.Rodríguez</strong> writes:
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<p>This is another submission, which combines the hyperref and the insdljs
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packages, to create an interactive document that performs simple vector
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calculus operations.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="tabela_periodica.pdf"><img src="tabela_periodica.jpg" alt="tabela_periodica.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="tabela_periodica.tex">tabela_periodica.tex</a> </td><td>A dynamic periodic table in Portuguese. Click an entry to get extra
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information. As with many dynamic examples, it depends on your viewer if this
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works (Safari does not work).
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<p>Submitter <strong>Orlando C.Rodríguez</strong> writes:
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<p>I'm sending you an interactive periodic table written in portuguese, using
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LaTeX with the color and hyperref packages.
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</td></tr>
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</table>
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<h3><a name=languages>Languages of the world</a></h3>
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<table border="1" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="4">
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<tr><th>Case (click for document)</th><th>Source</th><th>What it is</th></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="tengwar.pdf"><img src="tengwar.jpg" alt="tengwar.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="tengwar.tex">tengwar.tex</a> </td><td><p><strong>Ignacio Fernández Galván</strong> writes:
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<p>Tengwar is an alphabet invented by the J.R.R. Tolkien, which he used for
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representing fictional languages in his novel The Lord of the Rings and
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related works. There are many fonts freely available for this beautiful
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script, and I've created a package (tengwarscript, available at CTAN) which
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makes it easy to access some of these fonts in a standard way. This sample
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shows three short texts composed with different fonts and the tengwarscript
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package
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<tr><td><a href="tibetan.pdf"><img src="tibetan.jpg" alt="tibetan.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="tibetan.tex">tibetan.tex</a> </td><td>A piece of Tibetan text which describes the Story of a Brahman and
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his family.
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<p>Submitted by <strong>Norbert Preining<strong>.
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<tr><td><a href="hindi.pdf"><img src="hindi.jpg" alt="hindi.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="hindi.dn">hindi.dn</a> </td><td>An example of Hindi, from the devnag package of Velthuis. Submitted by
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<strong>Norbert Preining</strong>.
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<p> This is an example of how well TeX can be adapted to all different
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languages. I do not know what it says here, so do not hold me responsible.
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<tr><td><a href="arabic.pdf"><img src="arabic.jpg" alt="arabic.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="arabic.tex">arabic.tex</a> </td><td>An excerpt from Multilingual Typesetting with OMEGA, a Case Study: Arabic, by
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Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice. These are the last three pages from the
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well known torture.tex file. (This is done with Omega, the extension of TeX to
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Unicode). Submitted by <strong>Norbert Preining</strong>.
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<p><p> This is an example of how well TeX can be adapted to all different
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languages, even typesetting from right to left. I do not know what it says
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here, so do not hold me responsible.
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<tr><td><a href="esther-ch2.pdf"><img src="esther-ch2.jpg" alt="esther-ch2.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="esther-ch2.tex">esther-ch2.tex</a> </td><td>Submitter <strong>Art Werschulz</strong> writes:
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<p>Alan Hoenig <ahoenig@suffolk.lib.ny.us> has recently released version 2 of his
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Makor system. Makor is a system for high-quality Hebrew typesetting, which
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runs under Omega.
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<p>As an experiment, I typeset the second chapter of the book of Esther from the
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Hebrew Bible. This essentially involved downloading the BHS (Biblia Hebraica
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Stuttgartensia) version of Esther from the web, changing all instances of ~ to
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@, adding a few lines of boilerplate to the top and the bottom of the file,
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and running it through omega. BTW, I'm running MacOS X 10.2.4 on an 800MHz G4
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iMac, along with your latest i-Installer distribution of the TeX stuff.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="chinese.pdf"><img src="chinese.jpg" alt="chinese.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="chinese.tex">chinese.tex</a> </td><td>Submitter <strong>Martin Jansche</strong> writes:
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<p>I'm attaching two files that use the CJK package to
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typeset Chinese. Note that you don't see anything like
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\includepackage{CJK} in the LaTeX source, since it has to first be
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exported in cjk-encoding by Emacs, at which point the appropriate
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commands are inserted. The process is described in the file. The
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tight integration of CJK and Emacs makes it especially easy to mix and
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match different scripts and/or character sets.
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</td></tr>
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</table>
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<h3><a name=graphics>Graphics</a></h3>
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<table border="1" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="4">
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<tr><th>Case (click for document)</th><th>Source</th><th>What it is</th></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="maps.pdf"><img src="maps.jpg" alt="maps.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="maps.tex">maps.tex</a> </td><td>Submitter <strong>Jonathan Guyer</strong> writes:
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<p>This is a set of maps that I made for the frontispiece of a bound volume of
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my mother's journals that she wrote during a sailing trip in the Greek
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islands. My fiancée and I put the whole thing together for a Christmas
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present last year. Key ingredients are WARMreader for the route labeling and
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babel for the place names.
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<p>There are some errors in the route [probably doesn't matter to you 8^) ] and
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there's a lot of extraneous stuff in the preamble because it was cut and
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pasted from the manuscript. Further, I don't know squat about Greek, so I
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undoubtedly made errors in some of the labels.
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<p>The map was produced in IGOR Pro from coastal data I found someplace online
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(I don't remember where offhand). I supposed If I'd been truly masochistic,
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I would have used XYpic to produce the whole thing...
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="lee-wilczynski.pdf"><img src="lee-wilczynski.jpg" alt="lee-wilczynski.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="lee-wilczynski.tex">lee-wilczynski.tex</a> </td><td>A piece of math and pictures submitted by <strong>Dariusz Wilczynski</strong>. He writes:
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<p>I'm sending you a one-page excerpt from a paper of mine that was published
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in the American Journal of Mathematics. Hope you will find it useful. I'm sure
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Ross Moore and others can provide more interesting examples of the power of
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Xy-pic.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="cover.pdf"><img src="cover.jpg" alt="cover.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="cover.tex">cover.tex</a> </td><td><strong>Plamen Tanovski</strong> writes:
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<p>my contribution is actually nothing special in the world of TeX. I've
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used the cd-cover class and the tiling macros from PSTricks to produce
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nice looking enclosure for my sample cd. The idea for the cover is
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based upon a title page by Imre Reiner.
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<p>The interesting point, I think, is the use of ornaments. Ornaments
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have accompanied the letters through the whole history of the book.
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Being once *the* typographer's adornment for centuries, ornaments are
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nowadays -- where books are made by graphic designers -- almost
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forgotten and replaced with blurred meaningless color spots (quoting
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the german typographer H.P. Willberg: "visuelles Hintergrundrauschen"
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[visual background hissing]); maybe because it's not easy to make
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patterns and borders by clicking around with the mouse.
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<p>So I think it is a great chance for TeX to bring back ornaments in the
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books. There are enough tools to do that in TeX/PostScript/MetaPost
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etc. and fortunately there are still many ornamental fonts available.
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<p> P.S. I know, there are some articles on tiling with TeX, but they are most
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technically oriented. Mine is a real life example.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="BarnstormingBitter.pdf"><img src="BarnstormingBitter.jpg" alt="BarnstormingBitter.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="BarnstormingBitter.tex">BarnstormingBitter.tex</a> </td><td>A Beer bottle label created with TeX. I could use a bottle right now...
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<p>Submitter <strong>Kester Clegg</strong> writes:
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<p>The labels are designed to be cut out and put round the neck of beer
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bottles (my home brews as it happens!). One thing I like about using
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latex instead of a normal graphics program is that I get minute control,
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I can work on a single label for speed, and when I'm finished, I
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uncomment my 'block' of labels and bingo! I get the whole lot at once!
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="kanji-sheet.pdf"><img src="kanji-sheet.jpg" alt="kanji-sheet.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="kanji-sheet.tex">kanji-sheet.tex</a> </td><td><p>Kanji characters, slowly fading out to help you practice. This has been
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created with ConTeXt and Metapost.
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<p><strong>Christopher Creutzig</strong> writes:
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<p>I needed some practice sheets for my Japanese handwriting and cooked up
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these files.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="cubs_v_cards_8sep98.pdf"><img src="cubs_v_cards_8sep98.jpg" alt="cubs_v_cards_8sep98.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="scorecard.mp">scorecard.mp</a> <a href="scored_game.tex">scored_game.tex</a> </td><td><strong>Christopher Swingley</strong> writes:
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<p>This is a Metapost program and wrapper TeX document that generates a
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baseball scorecard, as well as demonstrates the scoring from the game
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where Mark McGwire broke Roger Maris' season home run record in 1998.
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The Metapost code includes a variety of locations, paths, and functions
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to make it easy to generate nice-looking baseball scorecards with or
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without the scoring.</p>
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<p>I've included the Metapost source, as well as the wrapper file I use to
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produce PDF versions for printing on letter sized paper.</p>
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="diagram.pdf"><img src="diagram.jpg" alt="diagram.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="diagram.tex">diagram.tex</a> </td><td>Submitter <strong>Bob Tennent</strong> writes:
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<p>Hi. I thought this might be of interest, primarily because it shows what
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can be done *without* WYSYWYG tools. The source consists of just 148
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lines of LaTeX and uses John Reynolds's fine macros package for diagrams
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(diagmac). The diagram was designed to be viewed on the web.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="cave.pdf"><img src="cave.jpg" alt="cave.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td><strong>Martin Budaj</strong> writes:
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<p>This contribution is a little bit unusual. It is a cave map produced by
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Therion, free cave mapping software. It uses MetaPost for drawing of map
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symbols such as passage walls or lakes, and pdfTeX for all the typesetting.
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It demonstrates the incredible flexibility of TeX and MetaPost.
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<p>I hope it will be interesting, although there is no source code included.
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(Therion uses its own input language; MetaPost and TeX files are generated at
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the run-time.)
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<p>The Therion homepage is on the <a
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href=http://therion.speleo.sk>http://therion.speleo.sk</a>
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="program_sample.pdf"><img src="program_sample.jpg" alt="program_sample.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="program_sample.tex">program_sample.tex</a> </td><td><p>Note: the file is 5.8MB
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<p><strong>Christopher Creutzig</strong> writes:
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<p>It shows a Metapost-generated background, XeTeX-set text, everything combined
|
|
with ConTeXt using pdfTeX. I've used Acrobat to extract only a part of the
|
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whole file, mostly because the complete thing makes sense only if you cut and
|
|
fold it the right way
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="poster.pdf"><img src="poster.jpg" alt="poster.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="poster.tex">poster.tex</a> </td><td><strong>Jonny Butler</strong> writes:
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<p>It's a poster I made for presenting at a linguistics conference. I was
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|
wary about trying to do something like this with LaTeX at my level,
|
|
but I was astonished at how easy it turned out to be (even though it
|
|
is in places a bit of a hack...)
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="ps_s_1b.pdf"><img src="ps_s_1b.jpg" alt="ps_s_1b.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="ps_s_1b.tex">ps_s_1b.tex</a> </td><td>A physics problem sheet with pictures created with pstricks.
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<p>Submitted by <strong>Christopher Allen</strong>.
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</td></tr>
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</table>
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<h3><a name=text>General Typesetting</a></h3>
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<table border="1" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="4">
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<tr><th>Case (click for document)</th><th>Source</th><th>What it is</th></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="winawer.pdf"><img src="winawer.jpg" alt="winawer.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="Blatny-Klinger.tex">Blatny-Klinger.tex</a> <a href="Blatny-Klinger-readme1st.txt">Blatny-Klinger-readme1st.txt</a> </td><td>Note, this impressive example is 1.1MB in size.
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<p>Submitter <strong>Ulrich Dirr</strong> writes:
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<p>Here are a few pages of 352 from a chess book (Kindermann/Dirr:
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Französisch Winawer, Band 1: 7. Dg4 0--0). Typesetting was done by
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PDFLaTeX (then v0.14h). Printed on art paper using a two colour setup (black
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|
and a spot color), the book was published in 2001 by Chessgate AG.
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|
|
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<p>The interested TeXie will recognize the creation and utilization of special
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|
fonts (Adobe Jenson (with special ligatures and kerning for german), ITC
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|
Legacy Sans, Castellar (initials), and self-made chess fonts for figurine
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notation and diagrams )
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|
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<p>I've downsampled the images to 96dpi. Otherwise the file would have been
|
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3.2MB.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="leaflet.pdf"><img src="leaflet.jpg" alt="leaflet.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>I think you need to zoom in or print this document if you really want to see
|
|
how nice it is. And remember its advice: you need at least a 66MHz processor
|
|
and 32MB memory for TeX!
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|
|
|
<p>Submitter <strong>Karl Berry</strong> writes:
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|
|
|
<p>Peter Flynn's LaTeX brochure is pretty amazing, IMHO.
|
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="0309Newsletter.pdf"><img src="0309Newsletter.jpg" alt="0309Newsletter.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="0309Newsletter.tex">0309Newsletter.tex</a> </td><td><strong>Bob Kerstetter</strong> writes:
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|
<p>Here are the source files and PDF output for a monthly newsletter. There
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|
may be better ways to do this, but it works okay and Alt-N is happy with it.
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|
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<p>Some of the word spacing in the narrow columns is a too large. I reduced it
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|
from terrible to livable by rewriting and doing copy fitting. The newsletter
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|
makes extensrive use of minipage and has lot of links. I would not call it
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|
interactive, however. It's more of a practical way to communicate with our
|
|
distributors and resellers.
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|
|
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<p>It is not pretty like lots of things on the showcase, but it does show a
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|
practical way of using LaTeX for a newsletter. It is certainly easier for me
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|
to do this than with a page layout program where all of your content is
|
|
trapped inside the document.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="sosl70c.screen.pdf"><img src="sosl70c.screen.jpg" alt="sosl70c.screen.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="gradu-20070208-1328-src.zip">gradu-20070208-1328-src.zip</a> <a href="sosl70c.print.pdf">sosl70c.print.pdf</a> </td><td><p>How to make two different types of output from one source with LaTeX. This is
|
|
something that for instance ConTeXt has been built for, but it is possible
|
|
in LaTeX as well. Click the image for the screen version. Click the link in the
|
|
box to the left of this text for the print version. Enjoy reading it (if you can read Finnish, that is).
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<strong>Juhapekka Tolvanen</strong> writes:
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<p>This Master's Thesis has no math at all. This is my Master's Thesis for
|
|
sociology. I am Master of Social Science now. Language is Finnish.
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|
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<p>There is not very clever LaTeX-trickery, but it is really big cavalcade
|
|
of LaTeX-packages. I was able to create two different layouts from same
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|
LaTeX-source. I learned very much LaTeX in that process when I wrote my
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Master' Thesis. Sources are available under the DSL (Design Science
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License). Yes, my Master's Thesis is free in the sense of freedom and
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price!
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="learning_early.pdf"><img src="learning_early.jpg" alt="learning_early.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="learning_early.tex">learning_early.tex</a> </td><td><p>This is a nice screen-oriented document. Note: this document is 2.4MB in
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size.</p>
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<p><strong>António Almeida</strong> writes:</p>
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<p>I submit here a document that I wrote using pdfLaTeX with some
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packages. It has the peculiar characteristic of being written with
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easy to get fonts, besides the CM family and the 35 standard fonts
|
|
Adobe.</p>
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<p>This is a document that introduces Early Music to all audiences. It
|
|
can be found in <a href=http://perusio.com>http://perusio.com</a></p>.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="csky-sample.pdf"><img src="csky-sample.jpg" alt="csky-sample.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="csky-sample.tex">csky-sample.tex</a> </td><td>Another fine typesetting example, which shows marginal notes and graphics. It
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is created with the ConTeXt package. Submitted by <strong>Bill
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|
McClain</strong>.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="6553-sample.pdf"><img src="6553-sample.jpg" alt="6553-sample.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="6553-specs.pdf">6553-specs.pdf</a> </td><td>Sometimes the most beautifully typeset non-mathematical books are actually made
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|
with TeX.
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|
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<p>Submitter <strong>Larry Tseng</strong> writes:
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|
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<p>[This is] an example of what TeX can do, when used by people who make their
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|
living setting type to implement the type specifications and layout of a
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|
distinguished book designer.
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<p>The book is <i>Exiles from a Future Time</i> by Alan M. Wald, University of North
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|
Carolina Press. The design is by Richard Eckersley, whose achievements in book
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design have earned him the designation of <a
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|
href="http://www.rsa-design.net/rdi/royaldesigners/"> Royal Designer for
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Industry by the Royal Society of Arts</a>. His work is also in several museum
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collections, including the <a href="http://ndm.si.edu/">Cooper-Hewitt National
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Design Museum, Smithsonian Institute</a>.
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<p>The sample is in the form of double-page spreads, intended to be viewed with
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Acrobat version 5 and above. Acrobat's full-screen mode with text-smoothing
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are recommended for best results. Some restrictions have been placed on the
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pdf content to discourage printing and extraction.
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|
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<p>Included also are the type specifications in a <a href="6553-specs.pdf">
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separate pdf</a> -- perhaps a much more interesting alternative to style files
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and other sources given that the book was set with Buffalo TeX, an in-house
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package that has its own special control sequences and syntax.
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|
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<p>For people who would like to see more of this sort of thing, we've set up a
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|
kind of "extension to the official TeX showcase" to show the work of other
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|
book designers that we have worked with in the past, all typeset with TeX
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|
of course. Simply log on to the showbooks page at <a
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href="http://www.tsengbooks.com">http://www.tsengbooks.com/</a>.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="peace_on_earth.pdf"><img src="peace_on_earth.jpg" alt="peace_on_earth.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>Look at this example and especially, zoom in to the text. Submitter
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<strong>William Adams</strong> writes:
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<p>It is a small French gatefold card which one can print to fit any decent size
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paper and then fold in half twice to get a card.
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<p>It is typeset in Zapfino using Omega and techniques which I hope to document
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and present presently.
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<p>I hope everyone will enjoy it in the spirit in which it is offered.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="ShowcaseCircular.pdf"><img src="ShowcaseCircular.jpg" alt="ShowcaseCircular.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="ShowcaseCircular.tex">ShowcaseCircular.tex</a> </td><td>This example shows TeX's power to set in strange paragraph shapes. TeX has
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been told the shape, but for the rest TeX just does its normal job, breaking
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lines into words and paragraphs into lines.
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Submitted by <strong>Dariusz Wilczynski</strong>.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="ubuntu_font_study.pdf"><img src="ubuntu_font_study.jpg" alt="ubuntu_font_study.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="ubuntu_font_study.tex">ubuntu_font_study.tex</a> </td><td>Submitter <strong>István Szántai</strong> writes:
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<p>Yesterday I was playing with the Ubuntu Font Family with LaTeX, and I came up with a pretty neat layout.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="partofTheBookofTea.pdf"><img src="partofTheBookofTea.jpg" alt="partofTheBookofTea.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>Typography from The Book of Tea by Okakura Kazuko, submitted by
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<strong>William Adams</strong>
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<p>The complete book (including the graphics shown in the icon) can be
|
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downloaded <a
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href="http://mysite.verizon.net/william_franklin_adams/portfolio/typography/thebookoftea.pdf">here</a>
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(2.7MB)
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="pp.pdf"><img src="pp.jpg" alt="pp.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="pp.tex">pp.tex</a> </td><td>Another fine typesetting example showing how well TeX can produce beautiful
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books. It is created with the ConTeXt package. Submitted by <strong>Bill
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|
McClain</strong>.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="diminuendo.pdf"><img src="diminuendo.jpg" alt="diminuendo.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="diminuendo.tex">diminuendo.tex</a> </td><td>Submitter <strong>Peter Hammond</strong> writes:
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<p>This is some rather old trickery, using Plain TeX and a readily resizable
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Postscript font, based on the \length macro example on p. 219 of the TeXbook.
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The result would be the complete decimal expansion of some prominent rational,
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|
irrational and transcendental numbers, in a finite area, except that of course
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the digits become too small to see (or print) rather fast. (Some of it appears
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within the cover design for our textbook, Essential Mathematics for Economic
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Analysis.)
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="texshade-eg.pdf"><img src="texshade-eg.jpg" alt="texshade-eg.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="texshade-eg.tex">texshade-eg.tex</a> </td><td><p><strong>Senthil Kumar Murugapiran</strong> writes:
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<p>I work as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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|
at Ajou University, South Korea. I would like to submit two examples
|
|
that highlight the use of LaTeX packages: TeXshade and TeXtopo.
|
|
Inclusion of these submissions in the TeX showcase might be helpful
|
|
for biologists to venture into learning LaTeX, once they understand
|
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what they can do with this wonderful software.
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I made these figures for an article that was published in <a
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href="http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2007-4/senthil/">The PracTeX Journal</a>.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="textopo-eg.pdf"><img src="textopo-eg.jpg" alt="textopo-eg.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="textopo-eg.tex">textopo-eg.tex</a> </td><td><p><strong>Senthil Kumar Murugapiran</strong> writes:
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<p>I work as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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at Ajou University, South Korea. I would like to submit two examples
|
|
that highlight the use of LaTeX packages: TeXshade and TeXtopo.
|
|
Inclusion of these submissions in the TeX showcase might be helpful
|
|
for biologists to venture into learning LaTeX, once they understand
|
|
what they can do with this wonderful software.
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|
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I made these figures for an article that was published in <a
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href="http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2007-4/senthil/">The PracTeX Journal</a>.
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="onetype.pdf"><img src="onetype.jpg" alt="onetype.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="onetype.tex">onetype.tex</a> </td><td>A treatise on a typeface by font-specialist <strong>William Adams</strong>.
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<p>It's designed to be printed all on a letter-sized sheet of paper and folded
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into a small booklet.
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</td></tr>
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</table>
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<h3><a name=misc>Miscellanous</a></h3>
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<table border="1" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="4">
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<tr><th>Case (click for document)</th><th>Source</th><th>What it is</th></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="terra.pdf"><img src="terra.jpg" alt="terra.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="terra.zip">terra.zip</a> </td><td>Note: won't display in Mac OS X Preview up to OS X Lion. Acrobat on Mac OS
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X displays this properly.
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<p>Submitter <strong>Orlando Rodriguez</strong> writes:
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<p>The following contribution contains a Beamer presentation, containing a spinning globe. It combines POVray with SWFTools, pdfTeX, Beamer and (hacked)flashmovie.
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The earth texture is rather large, so it's not included, but a suitable substitute can be found in the web.
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<tr><td><a href="uke.pdf"><img src="uke.jpg" alt="uke.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="uke.tar.bz2">uke.tar.bz2</a> </td><td><p>Submitter <strong>Mark G.</strong> writes:
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<p>In order to play songs on the ukulele, I devised a set of macros
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in (plain) TeX and typeset a few songbooks that show lyrics and chords
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(and sometimes tablatures).
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<tr><td><a href="en_gb_eclipse_114.pdf"><img src="en_gb_eclipse_114.jpg" alt="en_gb_eclipse_114.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>An example of a catalog entry automatically created from a vendor's database.
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Submitted by <strong>Stephan Lehmke</strong>. He writes:
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<p>I've attached another PDF which doesn't really have a TeX source because
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it's automatically generated from data, but I find the application itself
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quite excellent. You can find it among around 800 siblings at www.erco.com
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(for instance /download/data/_lsp/indoor/system/fr/fr_pollux_119.pdf).
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<tr><td><a href="kv315f.pdf"><img src="kv315f.jpg" alt="kv315f.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="kv315f.tex">kv315f.tex</a> </td><td>A Music example submitted by <strong>Norbert Preining</strong>. This is from
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the Andante KV 315, W.A. Mozart, transcription from D. Taupin
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<tr><td><a href="x.mpg"><img src="x.jpg" alt="x.mpg"></a></td><td> <a href="x.README">x.README</a> <a href="x.makemovie">x.makemovie</a> <a href="x.mp">x.mp</a> <a href="x.param">x.param</a> </td><td>Note, this file is 1MB in size.
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<p>This example is a funny MPEG movie, created with METAPOST, which is part of
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the TeX family of programs. It has been submitted by <strong>Hartmut
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Henkel</strong>. He writes:
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<p>I have created a small technical movie (premiere) about a
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certain species of liquid Indium ion emitter (Liquid Indium Metal
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Source, LIMS), which sometimes is used in space for propulsion or
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scientific experiments (e.g. by the company www.vh-s.de where I work).
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<p>The movie shows the heating of the Indium reservoir until the Indium
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melts. Forced by a strong electrical field (not shown) the Indium creeps
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to the tip of a Tungsten needle and builds a so-called Taylor cone
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there. From the tip of the cone Indium ions are extracted by the same
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field. --- After some operational time the In reservoir gets empty.
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Don't take this part too serious :-)
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<p>It's some 600 frames, drawn by MetaPost one by one,
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printed, put sheet by sheet on the scanner. Just kidding, it goes
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through a shell script (under debian Linux) starting with MetaPost,
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blows up to over 1GByte of .ppm files by ghostscript and then shrinks to
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the mpeg by mpeg_encode.
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<tr><td><a href="LM-Volume-manuscript.pdf"><img src="LM-Volume-manuscript.jpg" alt="LM-Volume-manuscript.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="LM-Volume-manuscript.tex">LM-Volume-manuscript.tex</a> </td><td>An example of creating documents with hyperlinks (internal and external) using
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the <em>hyperref</em> package.
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<strong>Claus Gerhardt</strong> writes:
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<p>I am not sure if this paper qualifies as a TeX showcase example, since
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nowadays everybody who is writing mathematical papers is using TeX, and these
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people need not to be convinced, but it might be a showcase for the beauty of
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hyperref.
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<tr><td><a href="EulerGibbsDuhem.pdf"><img src="EulerGibbsDuhem.jpg" alt="EulerGibbsDuhem.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="EulerGibbsDuhem.tex">EulerGibbsDuhem.tex</a> <a href="EulerGibbsDuhem.html">EulerGibbsDuhem.html</a> </td><td><p>This example is just an ordinary article with some math in it. However,
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using the <em>htlatex</em> tool from the TeX4ht suite, the same TeX source has
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been used to produce the PDF file you see when you click the icon as well as
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the web page you see when you click on the EulerGibbsDuhem.html link in the
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second column.
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<p>Submitted by <strong>Stephen Addison</strong>
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<tr><td><a href="johnhigexerpt.pdf"><img src="johnhigexerpt.jpg" alt="johnhigexerpt.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="johnhigexerpt.txt">johnhigexerpt.txt</a> </td><td>Submitter <strong>Scott Higinbotham</strong> writes:
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<p>Here is a contribution to your TeX showcase, if it seems appropriate.
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I do genealogy as a hobby, and I have kept the results of my work in
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book format almost from the beginning. I used Word for the Mac
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originally, but maintaining the document through the constant updates
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resulting from new information was not easy. I wanted something a
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little more automatic. This was accomplished using a database (4D) to
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keep the basic information (names, dates, and family groupings),
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individual text files for the narratives about each individual, and
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then having the database generate a LaTeX file, which TeX would
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process and put together in book form, generating a TOC and an index
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in the usual manner.
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<p>There is not much fancy TeX code involved, but the result seems to
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impress even experienced amateurs who have looked at it. It seemed to
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me that this might be interesing because it is an application which is
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a bit far afield from the usual disciplines where TeX has taken hold.
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<p>The example is anexcerpt from the genealogy.
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</table>
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<p>This showcase does not have very fancy markup. It is created automatically
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by a <a href="createshowcase">perl script</a> and a <a href="sections">driver
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file</a> and I am not an HTML-expert, that is why.</p>
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<p>If you want to contribute something that is not already there, or which is
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better than what is already there, please send me a submission by e-mail. Do
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not send me URLs or anything that requires work for me to find it or download
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it, I must set a limit somewhere and I will generally not include items I have
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to go browsing for. Sorry.
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<p>Include the case and make sure it looks good on screen as well as in print
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(so no bitmap fonts), and if possible some source and a description. If you
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want, add a JPG or TIFF of 150x200 (width x length) pixels just like the icons
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above. Preferably, keep your names in sync: foo.pdf for the showcase entry
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with foo.jpg for the icon. Include source. It does not need to be complete in
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that it can be compiled and that all necessary support files are there, but it
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should illustrate how it was done in TeX (or MetaPost or whatever).
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<p>E-mail your submissions to tex-showcase at rna.nl.
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