[OS X TeX] example file

Axel E. Retif axretif at att.net.mx
Sat Sep 7 22:16:28 EDT 2002



On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 11:58  AM, William Adams wrote:

> My suggestion here would be to grab Peter Wilson's wonderful memoir
> class from CTAN. The manual alone is well-worth reading, and it contains
> many sample code snippets.
>
> William
> (whose next project is a template w/ all possible options / code for the
> memoir class)

Really --thank you very much! I have downloaded the Memoir class manual, 
and it's an excellent piece of work on the graphic arts.

As Mr. Christopher Creutzig said elsewhere in the list,

> Before fiddling with layout yourself, read why generations of
> typesetters did what they did.

And in the words of Prof. Donald E. Knuth 
(http://www.advogato.org/article/28.html) himself,

> I do strongly think that people, when they start throwing computers at 
> something, they think that it's a whole new ballgame, so why should 
> they study the past. I think that is a terrible mistake.

Axel


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