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- From: dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu
- Subject: Re: studying bb's laps macros with stephan's magic box macros
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.153118.1@hmcvax.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Quixote Digital Typography
- References: <9507056@MVB.SAIC.COM>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 15:31:18 PST
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- In article <9507056@MVB.SAIC.COM>, TEXAMPLES%VUVAXCOM.BITNET@SHSU.edu writes:
- > For our local user's group meeting macro show and tell, I wanted to use
- > barbara beeton's little file LAPS.TEX which extends \llap and \rlap to
- > vertical mode \ulap and \dlap and then mixes them. She says you have to
- > see their result to understand how they work. Well, I've seen their result
- > and I still don't understand them, so I figured that it would help to make
- > the box borders, baseline and reference point visible to understand how they
- > work on the boxes, but I was unable to find such macros in the tex.index
- > file and was unwilling to retype several pages of a preliminary copy of
- > STEPHAN BECHTOLSHEIM'S perpetually almost about to appear book
- > "TEX IN PRACTICE" (new date January 31, 1993), and my old email address
- > for him is no longer valid. So my question is two-fold:
- > 1) Does anyone have any already done commented example files showing
- > clearly how these lap macros work?
-
- As the original publisher of those macros (5 or 6 years ago--can
- it really be that long?) in TeXMaG, I can point you to their
- various appearances in that journal (available for FTP from
- ymir.claremont.edu in [anonymous.tex.periodicals.texmag]). As a
- second aside, TeXMaG has officially ceased publication. I'm
- working on a "Best of TeXMaG" book for publication through TUG
- (perhaps by mid-1993) which will contain the best articles over
- the years from that publication. But I digress. The original
- article on Barbara's (or should I say "barbara's") macros
- appeared in TeXMaG v1n3. An illustration of them appears in
- TeXMaG v1n6. Another illustration (for printing a timeline)
- appeared in TeXMaG v1n7. If you don't understand how \rlap and
- \llap work, read about those first. Then you will be able to
- understand the rest of them a little better.
-
- -dh
-