Bijlage K BLUe’s Format 189 BLUe’s Format — The best of both worlds —.pdf

Bijlage K BLUe’s Format 189 BLUe’s Format — The best of both worlds — Kees van der Laan Hunzeweg 57, 9893 PB Garnwerd, The Netherlands cgl@rc.service.rug.nl Abstract An independent format—blue.fmt—is proposed to assist authors with creating, formatting, exchanging and maintaining compuscripts during the lifephases of publications. The format builds upon manmac.tex and the functionalities provided by tugboat.sty. Experience gained by publishers has been picked up too, because of my in-depth study of the activities of AMS with respect to T X formatting. More recent work of Knuth and E co-authors has been borrowed from gkpmac.tex. The design goal was to provide a format which suits me, which is easy to customize—to the world outside, and in general to changing circumstances—and which complies with the adages of software engineering. Another aim of blue.fmt is that it can be used throughout the lifecycle of publications on modest equipment to format articles, transparencies and you name it. The hoped for lifety is a lifetime. En-passant the design process is accounted for. New is the handling of a database of references—with cross-referencing—or pictures all in one-pass job. Keywords: Active documents, design, documentation, 1.1 Why? education, error handling, floats, format, inner versus A