jafortun@vela.acs.oakland.edu (James Fortune) (04/09/91)
I am seeking suggestions, comments, improvements, etc. for
the custom preamble that I use to take care of special
characters. Email to me unless you have suggestions
that are quite useful to the group in general. I am still
a novice TeX/LaTeX typesetter, but hope to shine the light
of everyone's experience on my shadowy attempts. I would
also like to thank the people who volunteered their time
answering questions on a +latex channel on Internet Relay
Chat. I will be attempting to use samples of thesis styles
to create a default engineering thesis style for Oakland U.
One final note: How do I get a Tau with a curly bottom instead
of the straight one (some professors are picky about such things)?
-------------- mypreamble.tex -----------
% Preamble
% Custom Definitions
% The namelist command is from the book
% LaTeX for Scientists and Engineers
% and is attributed to Nelson Beebe.
%
% namelist generates a list with an item width of
% your choice; form : \begin{namelist}{width}
\newcommand{\namelistlabel}[1]{\mbox{#1}\hfil}
\newenvironment{namelist}[1]{%
\begin{list}{}
{
\let\makelabel\namelistlabel
\settowidth{\labelwidth}{#1}
\setlength{\leftmargin}{1.1\labelwidth}
}
}{%
\end{list}}
\newfont{\bit}{cmbxti10 scaled\magstep1} % bold italic
\newcommand{\myi}[1]{#1\index{#1}} % indexing command (same book)
\newcommand{\bsl}{{\tt {\char '134}}} % backslash char from \tt font
\newcommand{\car}{\char '136} % carat ^
\newcommand{\cir}{{\tt {\char '136}}} % circumflex char from \tt font
\newcommand{\til}{\char '176} % tilde character ~
\newcommand{\rbr}{\char '135} % right bracket ]
\newcommand{\lbr}{\char '133} % left bracket [
\newcommand{\lcb}{{\tt {\char '173}}} % left curly brace from \tt font {
\newcommand{\rcb}{{\tt {\char '175}}} % right curly brace from \tt font }
\newcommand{\dol}{\char '044} % dollar $
\newcommand{\acu}{\char '023} % acute accent '
\newcommand{\gra}{\char '022} % grave accent `
\newcommand{\lpa}{\char '050} % left parenthesis (
\newcommand{\rpa}{\char '051} % right parenthesis )
\newcommand{\amp}{\char '046} % ampersand &
\newcommand{\pct}{\char '045} % per cent % (\per for period)
\newcommand{\pou}{\char '043} % pound #
\newcommand{\und}{{\tt {\char '137}}} % underscore from \tt font _
\newcommand{\les}{{\tt {\char '074}}} % less than from \tt font <
\newcommand{\mor}{{\tt {\char '076}}} % greater than from \tt font >
\newcommand{\per}{\char '056} % period .
\newcommand{\str}{\char '052} % asterisk * (star)
\newcommand{\ats}{\char '100} % at sign @
\newcommand{\pip}{{\tt {\char '174}}} % pipe |
\newcommand{\sdq}{\char '175} % straight double quote " (becomes } in \tt)
\newcommand{\ssq}{\char '###} % straight single quote ' (...)
\newcommand{\tdq}{{\tt {\char '042}}} % typewriter font double quote
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James Fortune - ... to suffer the slings and arrows
Oakland University - of outrageous Fortune ...
jafortun@vela.acs.oakland.edu - Hamlet, Shakespeare
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