The committee for which this `system' has evolved is not an
executive committee, so I cannot mark items for `action' by
specific committee members. However, I do mark, with a dagger in
the margin, specific items on which the Chairman and I think that
the committee needs a progress report at the next meeting. This
could easily be changed to mark `actions': it would probably
require an extra, third, argument to the \progress
command, which is described below, to specify the relevant
committee member(s).
The \progress command, defined in MINUTES.STY,
specifies what is to happen for each item marked for a progress
report. It has two arguments: a `title' to be used for the item,
and a `label' for the item. As well as putting a dagger in the
margin the \progress command puts a LATEX label at
the item, and puts an entry into an extra file, here EXAMPLE.AGA, so that the `title' and item-number are included in
the ``Matters arising from the Minutes of the last meeting'' part
of the Agenda for the next meeting. To assist in the production
of the next set of minutes a LATEX index file is also produced
containing a list of the `titles' and `labels'.