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Note: If you are seeing it in rmail, Note: it means the file has no messages in it.  1,, Summary-line: 27-Nov aaron@ATHENA.MIT.EDU #MITeX Received: by ATHENA-PO-2.MIT.EDU (5.45/4.7) id AA08794; Mon, 27 Nov 89 18:49:12 EST Received: from OLIVER.MIT.EDU by ATHENA.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA07108; Mon, 27 Nov 89 18:49:07 EST From: aaron@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Received: by OLIVER.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA00898; Mon, 27 Nov 89 18:48:50 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 89 18:48:50 -0500 Message-Id: <8911272348.AA00898@OLIVER.MIT.EDU> To: amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Subject: MITeX *** EOOH *** From: aaron@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 27 Nov 89 18:48:50 -0500 To: amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Subject: MITeX for two-sided mode, leftmargin and rightmargin should work, and, in addition, insidemargin and outsidemargine should do the rightthing. 2 -- A ron  1,, Summary-line: 8-Dec jh@VENUS.MIT.EDU #joetex Received: by ATHENA-PO-2.MIT.EDU (5.45/4.7) id AA05558; Fri, 8 Dec 89 14:02:59 EST Received: from VENUS.MIT.EDU by ATHENA.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA20197; Fri, 8 Dec 89 14:02:43 EST Message-Id: <8912081902.AA20197@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> Received: by VENUS id AA17334g; Fri, 8 Dec 89 14:02:25 EST Date: Fri, 8 Dec 89 14:02:25 EST From: Joe Harrington To: amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Subject: joetex Cc: jh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Reply-To: jh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** Date: Fri, 8 Dec 89 14:02:25 EST From: Joe Harrington To: amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Subject: joetex Cc: jh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Reply-To: jh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU spelled the normal way, pronounced the normal way, like a guy from Texas, is an evolving (it had better, given its current state!) set of criteria and possible eventual implementation of those criteria, probably using TeX, for what i'd like to see in a text formatter. so far: joetex criteria can redefine anything anywhere in the document. complete user macro and programming capability (possibly just use TeX's). can break to TeX any time. only one reserved character in normal text (escchar). environments with no reserved characters must exist. since anything can be redefined, an arbitrary number of reserved or special characters and character groupings can be created (like //, **, and ..). all ps and all tex fonts available. any pair of {},[],(),<>,begin()end will do scoping. can be nested correctly. @i(@b(@include(foo)@math(x(x+1)))) works (doesn't in Scribe). RESTRICTION (this means that unnested scoping (a bad idea anyway) needs to use different characters, if it will be supported at all). note that end doesn't necessarily need an argument. it just ends the innermost nest begun with begin(). all inline stuff can be done by (escchar)command(start-scope)text(stopscope). if the user wishes, she may define special (now reserved) start-stop scope characters, and use (special-start-scope)(optional_escchar)command(space)text(special-stop-scope) these are like @i(foo) and {\i foo}. it would be smart to define an alternate way to generate the now-reserved special scoping characters! start a new level of section by saying \level[n] or something, so you can go as deep as you want, and so you can move sections around and not have to redo all the levels to sublevels, etc. I believe mitex falls out of this, at least as currently documented... comment on this, tell me new things to add, or why something is hard. the idea is to provide ability to convert documents, and have it do what YOU want, yet provide stuff like section things.  1,, Summary-line: 15-Oct amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU #MITeX notes Received: by ATHENA-PO-2.MIT.EDU (5.45/4.7) id AA03412; Sun, 15 Oct 89 08:54:45 EDT Received: from GEVALT.MIT.EDU by ATHENA.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA07249; Sun, 15 Oct 89 08:54:40 EDT From: amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Received: by GEVALT.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA12982; Sun, 15 Oct 89 08:54:36 -0400 Date: Sun, 15 Oct 89 08:54:36 -0400 Message-Id: <8910151254.AA12982@GEVALT.MIT.EDU> To: amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Subject: MITeX notes *** EOOH *** From: amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Date: Sun, 15 Oct 89 08:54:36 -0400 To: amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Subject: MITeX notes 1. In errh@ndle, make H, h, etc. ACTIVE and bind them to the routines. Then simply execute \errr@ply, making sure that the user doesn't enter still more garbage. 2. For fonts: we need a routine (family-dependent, of course) that takes a size from a continuum and returns the "closest" size. The sizes, rather than being indexed by their actual size, should be indexed by rank; then a \larger and \smaller could be written to step up or down one step at a time.  1,, Summary-line: 22-Oct rfrench@ATHENA.MIT.EDU #MITeX wish Received: by ATHENA-PO-2.MIT.EDU (5.45/4.7) id AA21112; Sun, 22 Oct 89 19:27:49 EDT Received: from OLIVER.MIT.EDU by ATHENA.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA03226; Sun, 22 Oct 89 19:27:44 EDT Received: by OLIVER.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA13760; Sun, 22 Oct 89 19:27:39 -0400 Date: Sun, 22 Oct 89 19:27:39 -0400 Message-Id: <8910222327.AA13760@OLIVER.MIT.EDU> From: "Robert S. French" Sender: rfrench@ATHENA.MIT.EDU To: amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Subject: MITeX wish *** EOOH *** Date: Sun, 22 Oct 89 19:27:39 -0400 From: "Robert S. French" Sender: rfrench@ATHENA.MIT.EDU To: amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Subject: MITeX wish When "twoside" or equivalent is specified, make MITeX place a blank page between the title page and the TOC, and between the TOC and the main document, if necessary to make double-sided copying come out right. Also between chapters, etc. Make sure you have chapters - they're necessary for theses. They should start a new page automatically. Rob