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- \magnification=\magstep1
- \input vertex
- \input ppt.sty
-
- \topmatter
- \title{Ver\TeX\ User's Manual}
- \author{Hal R. Varian}
- \affil{University of Michigan}
- \abstract{This documentation describes Ver\TeX, a package of \TeX\
- macros that will produce beautiful working papers, and allow you to
- simulate final versions in a variety of journal styles.}
- \keywords{\TeX, typesetting, economics}
- \address{Prof. Hal R. Varian, Department of Economics, University of
- Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A.\ \ Internet address: {\tt
- Hal\_Varian@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU}}
- \thanks{Thanks to Kari Gluski, the participants of {\tt tex:forum},
- the members of the Economics Department at the University of Michigan,
- and all the \TeX\ hackers who made this work possible.} \date{August,
- 1986}
- \version{\today}
- \prelim
- \endtopmatter
- \document
-
- There are several \TeX\ macro packages already available, so why is one
- more necessary? Basically I felt that there was a need for a simple,
- flexible package that added a minimum amount to {\tt PLAIN.TEX}, and yet
- still provided useful features for writing technical reports.
-
- Ver\TeX\ will help you to {\bf V}isualize {\bf E}conomics {\bf R}eports
- using \TeX. Ver\TeX\ will produce nice looking preprints and will aid in
- formatting your bibliography, but it will also produce simulated journal
- styles for a variety of economics journals. It is very easy to add new
- journal styles to Ver\TeX for someone who knows a little bit of \TeX.
-
- \section Ver\TeX\ Commands
-
- The easiest way to show you Ver\TeX's commands is to show you the
- start of this paper. It looks like something like this:
-
- \verbatim/
- \magnification=\magstep1
- \input vertex
- \input ppt.sty
-
- \topmatter
- \title{Ver\TeX\ User's Manual}
- \author{Hal R. Varian}
- \affil{University of Michigan}
- \abstract{This documentation describes Ver\TeX, a package of \TeX\
- macros that will produce beautiful working papers, and allow you to
- simulate final versions in a variety of journal styles.}
- \keywords{\TeX, typesetting, economics}
- \address{Prof. Hal R. Varian, Department of Economics, University of
- Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A.\ \ Internet address: {\tt
- Hal\_Varian@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU}}
- \thanks{Thanks to Kari Gluski, the participants of {\tt tex:forum},
- the members of the Economics Department at the University of Michigan,
- and all the \TeX\ hackers who made this work possible.} \date{August,
- 1986}
- \version{\today}
- \prelim
- \endtopmatter
- \document
-
- There are several \TeX\ macro packages already available, so why is
- one more necessary? Basically I felt that there was a need for a
- simple, flexible package that added a minimum amount to {\tt
- PLAIN.TEX}, and yet still provided useful features for writing
- technical reports./
-
- \bigskip
-
- That's pretty simple, isn't it? The only extra feature that you need to
- know is that you can put \verbatim/\cr/ into the \verbatim/\title/ macro if
- you want to split the title into two or more lines, as in
- $$\verbatim/\title{A very, very, very, very \cr very long title}/$$
-
- If there are two authors of a paper, use the commands
- $$\verbatim/\authortwo{The Name}\affiltwo{The University}/$$
- The \verbatim/\thanks/ should come {\it before\/} the \verbatim/\author/
- and \verbatim/\title/ keywords, if the style you are using attaches the
- thanks as a footnote to the author or title.
-
- What if there are more than two authors? In that case you are on your
- own, except in the preprint style. There you can do something like:
-
- \verbatim/\author{A. Winken \cr {\it MIT} \cr B. Blinken \cr
- {\it University of California} \cr {\rm and} \cr C. Nod \cr
- {\it University of Michigan}}/
-
- This will set the authors and affiliations up the way you want them.
- Be sure to leave the \verbatim/\affil/ box out if you do this trick.
- I intend to provide better support for multi-authored papers in the
- next release of Ver\TeX.
-
- When you want to start a new section, you type
- $$\verbatim/\section title of the section \par/$$
- and when you want to start a subsection you type
- $$\verbatim/\subsection title of the subsection \par/$$
- Ver\TeX\ will handle the section numbers for you, automatically numbering
- each section as required.
-
- You can enter footnotes by using the construction
- $$\verbatim/\fnote{This is a footnote}/$$ and you get a
- footnote.\fnote{Like this!} If at the end of your document, you type
- \verbatim/\PrintEndNotes/, \TeX\ will print out an end page with all your
- footnotes on it, for those journals who just have to have it.
-
- If you want the paper to be double spaced, put \verbatim#\doublespace#
- between \verbatim#\endtopmatter# and \verbatim#\document#. This way the
- cover will come out single spaced and the document will come out double
- spaced, which is what people usually want.
-
- If you are in doublespace mode and want to put a paragraph in single
- spaced mode for some reason, type \verbatim#\singlespace#. The document
- will now revert to single spaced mode until you enter \verbatim#\doublespace#
- again.
-
- One common reason to want to use single spacing in a doublespaced document
- is for long quotes. Ver\TeX\ provides this via the command
- \verbatim/\quote/, as in \verbatim/\quote{Four score and seven $\ldots$}/.
-
- \section Extra Goodies for Math and Figures
-
- But there are more goodies in Ver\TeX. For example, you can attach {\it
- names\/} to equations, and have \TeX\ automatically number (and renumber!)
- them for you. To use this feature you type something like the following
- when you first introduce an equation:
- $$\verbatim/$$e=mc^2\eqno\Equation\Einstein$$/$$
- and then when you want to reference it, you say
- $$\ldots\verbatim/as in equation (\Einstein)./$$
- The same sort of thing works with figures. When you first reference a
- figure, called, say \verbatim/\MonaLisa/, you type
- \verbatim/\Fig\MonaLisa/. \TeX\ will assign the next figure number to it
- and enter ``Figure 2'' (or whatever) in the text. At the end of the
- paragraph, or roughly where you want the figure to appear, you
- type
- $$\verbatim/\Figure\MonaLisa{2in}{The great painting Mona Lisa.}/$$
- The three arguments to the \verbatim/\Figure/ macro are: (1) the
- figure name, (2) the vertical size of the figure, and (3) the
- caption for the figure. \TeX\ will insert the figure using the
- \verbatim/\midinsert/ command, so it will appear on the page you
- ask for it if there is room, and otherwise float to the top of the
- next page.
-
- There are couple of things about equation and figure names that are worth
- pointing out. First, \TeX\ does not allow you to use {\it numbers\/} as
- part of a name. Thus names like \verbatim/\Eq1/ and \verbatim/\Eq2/ are
- not allowed. However, you can {\it reuse\/} names as often as you wish.
- You can refer to an equation as \verbatim/\A/ in one section of the paper
- and later on redefine \verbatim/\A/ to refer to another equation. I find
- it convenient to use rather long descriptive names like
- \verbatim/\FirstOrderCondition/ for equations that I refer to throughout the
- paper and use short names like \verbatim/\A/ for equations that I only
- refer to once or twice.
-
- There a couple of handy math commands. You can type \verbatim/\text{for all}/
- if you want ``for all'' to appear in math mode. You can type
- \verbatim/\D{f(x)}{x_i}/ to get
- $$\D{f(x)}{x_i}$$ and
- \verbatim/d{f(x)}{x_i}/ to get $\d{f(x)}{x_i}$.
-
- The command \verbatim/\proof/ sets a nice {\it Proof.} The command
- \verbatim/\qed/ gives you a box: \qed The command \verbatim/\proclaim/
- works the same as described in {\it The \TeX book}, but the style has been
- changed slightly.
-
- The command \verbatim/\today/ gives today's date nicely spelled out, like:
- \today.
-
- To get verbatim \TeX\ listings, use the construction
-
- $$\verbatim/\verbatim#This will appear verbatim#/$$
-
- Any convenient symbols can be used as a delimiter in place of the
- \verbatim/#/ signs.
-
- \section References
-
- Ver\TeX\ has nice way to deal with references. You type something
- like the following:
-
- \verbatim/
-
- \ref \by{Afriat, S.} \paper{The Construction of a Utility Function from
- Expenditure Data} \jour{International Economic Review} \vol{8}
- \yr{1967} \pages{67--77}\endref
-
- \ref \by{Afriat, S.} \paper{On the Constructability of Consistent Price
- Indices Between Several Periods Simultaneously} \inbook{Essays in
- the Theory and Measurement of Consumer Behavior in Honor of Sir
- Richard Stone}\editor{A. Deaton} \publ{Cambridge University Press}
- \publaddr{Cambridge, England}\yr{1984}\endref
-
- \ref \by{Browning, M.}\paper{A Non-Parametric Test of the Life-Cycle
- Rational Expectations Hypothesis} \paperinfo{Princeton University
- Discussion Paper 64} \yr{1984}\endref
-
- \ref \by{Varian, H.} \paper{Nonparametric Test of Models of Consumer
- Behavior}\jour{Review of Economic Studies} \vol{50} \yr{1982b} \no{3}
- \pages{99--110}\endref
-
- \ref \by{Varian, H.} \book{Microeconomic Analysis} \publ{W.
- W. Norton \& Co.} \publaddr{New York} \yr{1984}\endref
- /
- \medskip
-
- and you will get a nice typeset output like:
-
- \bigskip
-
- \ref \by{Afriat, S.} \paper{The Construction of a Utility Function from
- Expenditure Data} \jour{International Economic Review} \vol{8}
- \yr{1967} \pages{67--77}\endref
-
- \ref \by{Afriat, S.} \paper{On the Constructability of Consistent Price Indices
- Between Several Periods Simultaneously} \inbook{Essays in the Theory and
- Measurement of Consumer Behavior in Honor of Sir Richard Stone}
- \editor{A. Deaton} \publ{Cambridge University Press} \publaddr{Cambridge,
- England}\yr{1984}\endref
-
- \ref \by{Browning, M.}\paper{A Non-Parametric Test of the Life-Cycle Rational
- Expectations Hypothesis} \paperinfo{Princeton University Discussion Paper 64}
- \yr{1984}\endref
-
- \ref \by{Varian, H.} \paper{Nonparametric Test of Models of Consumer
- Behavior} \jour{Review of Economic Studies} \vol{50} \yr{1982b} \no{3}
- \pages{99--110}\endref
-
- \ref \by{Varian, H.} \book{Microeconomic Analysis} \publ{W.
- W. Norton \& Co.} \publaddr{New York} \yr{1984}\endref
-
- \medskip
-
- The reference macros are quite complicated and are still being fixed; use
- them at your own risk. Currently if you omit a field that is
- require---like leaving out the page numbers or something like
- that---Ver\TeX\ will sometimes print out excess commas and other
- punctuation. Eventually this will be fixed, but for now it is better to
- put in a dummy value, like \verbatim#\pages{???}# or something like that.
-
- If you have a fancy reference that doesn't fit one of the above models,
- just use the \verbatim#\ref# macro to start the reference. You'll get
- the right hanging indentation and inter-reference spacing that way.
-
- Refer to the file \verbatim#vertex.hst# for the history of revisions to
- Ver\TeX. If you add some peachy macros of your own, I strongly suggest
- that you put them in a separate file. Then as new revisions of Ver\TeX\
- come out, you won't have to modify them in any way.
-
- Ver\TeX\ is in the public domain; please feel free to distribute it however
- you want, as long as you indicate the original author.
-
- \section Journals
-
- Want to get published quick? Then use Ver\TeX's journal simulation
- feature. Instead of using the command \verbatim\input ppt.sty\ use
- the style files:
-
- \medskip
-
- \verbatim\jpe.sty\ --- for the {\it Journal of Polemical Economy}.
-
- \verbatim\jep.sty\ --- for the {\it Journal of Economic Perspectives}.
-
- \verbatim\jet.sty\ --- for the {\it Journal of Economic Theorems}.
-
- \verbatim\aer.sty\ --- for the {\it Armenian Economic Review}.
-
- \verbatim\ecnmet.sty\ --- for {\it Economagica}.
-
- \verbatim\restud.sty\ --- for {\it Review for Economic Students}.
-
- \verbatim\qje.sty\ --- for the {\it Quartered Journal of Economics}.
-
- \medskip
-
- When you use one of these styles, Ver\TeX\ will automatically adjust the
- style of the document and the style of the references to be more-or-less
- consistent with the journal style. Some fine tuning may be needed, but
- the output generally looks pretty good.
-
- If you want to see a small sample of each output, \TeX\ the file {\tt
- vertest.tex}.
-
- \enddocument
-
- \bye