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- From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
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- Subject: [comp.text.tex] VERTEX on FILESERV/Niord
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- Date: 26 Jul 1992 21:11:48 GMT
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- After pestering him in e-mail messages over a few years, Hal Varian has
- kindly provided me with the files for his VERTEX packages, which are now
- available from SHSU. Whether his decision was based on shutting me up or
- in his own recognition that this is a valuable package in its own right, I
- may never know -- however, I extend my sincerest thanks to him (for the
- economists out there -- yes, it is *that* Hal Varian; I'll pester just
- about anyone in e-mail). Some years back (1987 or 1988), he generously
- provided me these files -- they have many neat tricks which I have employed
- in designing layouts for various economics and business-related periodicals
- since that time.
-
- Attached is the description file for this package. As noted, it is
- sincerely hoped that the field of economics can get a little closer to our
- "hard" science colleagues in developing TeX tools for our profession --
- VERTEX is a good candidate for a starting point!!
-
- Regards, George
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- VERTEX
- ------
- The VERTEX package includes Hal Varian's <Hal.Varian@umich.edu> macros to
- Visualize Economic Reports in TeX. Please note that (a) this package is
- based on plain TeX and is not an extension to any other package now
- available, (b) it is relatively old, although not outdated, and (c) it is
- not presently supported by its author. Professor Varian, adequately busy
- with his own research agenda at Michigan, his textbooks (which he has
- prepared in TeX, by the way!), and his other highly recognized activities,
- was kind enough to allow the SHSU archives to include this work. It is
- hoped that the work he has provided may serve as a springboard for further
- developments in the field of economics within other TeX-related packages.
- Indeed, he hints that this may be reviewed by him for further development
- as an application in LaTeX and BibTeX once LaTeX3 is available.
-
- The package is based around a controlling macro, VERTEX.TEX, which calls
- various styles for production. These styles (specific to VERTEX -- these
- are NOT LaTeX styles) produce output largely compatible with the following
- economic journals (economists will recognize the twist on titles used by
- Varian), including multicolumn layout (where appropriate), location of
- footnotes and formatting of references sections. They include:
- AER.STY --- for the Armenian Economic Review.
- ECNMET.STY --- for Economagica.
- JEP.STY --- for the Journal of Economic Perspectives.
- JET.STY --- for the Journal of Economic Theorems.
- JPE.STY --- for the Journal of Polemical Economy.
- QJE.STY --- for the Quartered Journal of Economics.
- RESTUD.STY --- for Review for Economic Students.
-
- To retrieve the package of 19 files, include the command:
- SENDME VERTEX
- in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu).
- To retrieve a specific file, such as VERTEX.VERTEX_TEX, include:
- SENDME VERTEX.VERTEX_TEX
- in your mail message to FILESERV. The files, both individually and as a
- ZIP archive, are available for anonymous ftp retrieval from Niord.SHSU.edu
- (192.92.115.8) in [FILESERV.VERTEX].
-
- Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes)
- File Blocks Save file as:
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- VERTEX.AER_STY 10 AER.STY
- VERTEX.ECNMET_STY 10 ECNMET.STY
- VERTEX.FILES_LST 3 FILES.LST
- VERTEX.FNTEST_TEX 8 FNTEST.TEX
- VERTEX.JEPCONT_TEX 8 JEPCONT.TEX
- VERTEX.JEP_STY 12 JEP.STY
- VERTEX.JET_STY 11 JET.STY
- VERTEX.JPE_STY 9 JPE.STY
- VERTEX.PPT_STY 12 PPT.STY
- VERTEX.QJE_STY 11 QJE.STY
- VERTEX.READ_ME 4 READ.ME
- VERTEX.RESTUD_STY 13 RESTUD.STY
- VERTEX.TEST_TEX 10 TEST.TEX
- VERTEX.TWOCOL_TEX 6 TWOCOL.TEX
- VERTEX.USERS_LST 4 USERS.LST
- VERTEX.VERTEST_TEX 2 VERTEST.TEX
- VERTEX.VERTEX_DOC 25 VERTEX.DOC
- VERTEX.VERTEX_HST 6 VERTEX.HST
- VERTEX.VERTEX_TEX 33 VERTEX.TEX
-
- Approximate total blocks in full VERTEX package = 197
-
-