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E16 MAPS 39 Kees van der Laan I must confess that I was put o by the TEX Collection after roughly a decade of my TEX inactivity. The no longer maintained 4AllTEX CD of 1999 allowed me to TEX this paper under Vista(!) with a handful of layout (preprint) macros, to be replaced by the macros of the editor of the proceedings. The outdated 4AllTEX CD contains a lot of interesting macros. Ingenious is the refresh option by just clicking the preview window in windvi, which alas, does not work properly under Vista. ForpdfasoutputIhadtogetfamiliarwithTEXnicCenter. This is in contrast with for example Adobe: when you order software such as the Creative Suite, it is turnkey andworks. TEXing Paradigms Master Class TheTEXarcanehasbecomecomplex,verycomplex,and in my opinion too complex, if not for the number of languages one has know, as reported by Marek Ryćko at the BachoTEX2009. But... in the spirit of UNIX, or LINUX as you wish, many little languages are unavoidable. I favor to simplify. Educate the ins-and-outs of plain as basis, as a vehicle for digital typography, with a wink to manmac when real-life book production is at stake. A beginners’ course on how to use TEX is not necessary, becauseoftheexcellenttutorials,andtheTEXCollection installation (active) PDF document in your language to get L ATEX, proTEXt or ConTEXt running. How to run MetaPostisnot yet provided for, did Imisssomething? As already proposed a decade ago, I favor a class on minimal markup, on macro writing paradigms in plain TEX,whichIwouldproposenowadaysasaMasterClass, not on esoterics, but on macros we all need now and then, which are full of details worthwhile to know. In my macros you will not nd 15 \expandafters in a row. Triads?Yes! The prerequisite is that participants are AnyTEX users, who just want to broaden their understanding, who want to gain a condent way of robust macro writing, who like documents to be embellished by minimal markup. This Master Class I would organize via the internet, although a TEX course via the internet is not new. Times have changed. The teacher, or conductor, does not have to be the most knowledgeable TEXie, just the coordinator, like a chairman in a meeting. Attendees and coordinator commit themselves for a year or so, and have once a month a multiple participants session on the internet, with as many in between contacts as one can handle. The coordinator provides for exercises, whereideastobeworkedoutcancomefromparticipants too. In order to secure commitment the course is not for free, and the coordinator, under contract, is paid. A user group, for example NTG, backs it up and warrants continuity, for example with respect to the coordinator. For such a TEXing Paradigms activity I have material of 10yearsagoasstartingpoint,butwouldliketoseeadded sessions on the useofthe various \last〈. . .〉s, virtual fonts, active documents,readhypertexts, and TEX withcallsto MetaPostonthe y. Myoldheadingspaperwillberevisedwithemphasison the three generationsofheadingsalready 1. JustasinplainTEX 2. Provide forrunningheadsinthe headline andprovide foraToCcreation, like in manmac 3. Provide forhypertextcross-referencing linksand PDF bookmarks. Of course, we might look into the CTAN for examples from the community. The gain for participants is to master paradigms, to acquire a robust and minimal TEX macro writing technique,justlikeKnuth.AbsolutenecessaryisthattheTEX community backs up such a Master Class, by providing turnkey, mutual communicating TEX&MetaPost on the y, distributed forexampleviathe TEX Collection DVD. Although I am not in a good health, and have already said good-bye to most of my TEX materials, I am availabletoconductsuchaclass,providedthereisastand-in, andturnkey TEX⇔MetaPost IDEs for PCs. Anotherdreamofmeisa(hyperbolic)geometryclass supported by MetaPostastool.
TEX Education EUROTEX 2009 E17 M.C. Escher Limit Circle III TEXing Paradigms beneficial? In the sequel I will argue why a Master Class, or is it a sort of internet workshop, for TEXing paradigms is benecial. Itwouldbegreatifonecouldwriteamacro \jpgjust at the moment one needs it. Reality is, I must confess, that it is not yet, well nearly, the case for me. Knuth, Iwastold in the past,can just do that. In 1994 I published a note on the extension of plains \item macro in MAPS to provide for automatic numbering. AftermyperiodofTEXinertiaIlookedatitagain,and I was much surprised. I missed the following considerations, alsoin the revision of1996: 1. Imissed the criterion that itsuseshouldbe similar, andthenImeanreally similar, to Knuth’s \item, withitsminimal markup. 2. Imissed the reasoning why it isuseful to supply such amacro. Wouldnot just the straightforwardmarkup \item1 text1 \item2 text2 etc make the need foramacro \nitem superuous? 3. Ioverlooked that it wasallabout:alistoflabeled indented paragraphs, eachparagraphasusualended by a \par—or the synonym \endgraf—inserted by either \item, \itemitem, \smallbreak, . . .\bigbreak, . . ., or implicitly by just the minimal markupofa blankline! The point is: a good teacher would have drawn my attentiontotheingenuityofKnuth’sminimalmarkup,and strongly suggested not to write such a macro. Moreover, he would argue that there is hardly a need for it. MAPS wasnotreviewed,soneitherarefereewasinsight.Selfstudy is not enough, one needs guidance by a master. Little,rstknowledge,whichisusuallyacquiredbyselfstudy, isdangerous. ConTEXt and L ATEX provide for automatically numbered lists. But... within an environment, which is a clear and secure but dierent approach. It does not strive after utmost minimal markup. If you have to mark up a document with long lists of numbered paragraphs a minimal \nitem macro, similar in use as \item, can be handy. I would propose the following \nitem nowadays, where I took care of my perceived impossibility at the time by redening \par atanappropriatelocalplace.Thesequenceofnumbered paragraphs,tobemarkedupby \nitemsisenvelopedby a group behind the scenes, with the advantage that one can stay ignorant ofthe hiddencounter. \newcount\itemcnt \def\nitem{\begingroup \def\par{\endgroup\endgraf} \def\nitem{\advance\itemcnt1 \item{\the\itemcnt}}% \nitem} %\par has to be replaced by \endgraf \def\item{\endgraf\hang\textindent} \def\itemitem{\endgraf\indent \hangindent2\parindent \textindent} Another, maybe overlooked 17 nicety is to have a \ftn macro, which maintains and uses a footnote counter. The user can just supply the contents of the footnote, does not have to worry about the (hidden) counter. My recent created Minimal Markup variant does not need curlybracesaroundthe(1-paragraph)footnotetext,just endthe textby ablankline. No \futerelet\next\fo@t needed. If not convinced by my arguments a Master Class is benecial by denition. Examples of macro writing To show you what I have on my mind in macro writing Ihave supplied afew macros. Tough exercise Glance at my recent solution of the TEXbook tough exercise 11.5, which is more clear and more direct than the one given in the TEXbook, IMHO, illustrating the
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