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- MEMO.STY
-
- This is a LaTeX style that is used at the Los Alamos National
- Laboratory to format memos in accordance with rules established in
- the Laboratory's "Office Procedures Manual." There is a choice of
- Computer Modern fonts or PostScript fonts. Memos can be printed
- in Roman or typewriter typefaces. A "THRU" or a "THRULESS" header
- can be called for. The following features can be included in a
- memo: a subject line, a reference line, a signature line, an
- approval line, an enclosures list, an attachments list, a copy
- list, or a distribution list.
-
- For more information read the "1989 Conference Proceedings" issue
- of "TUGBOAT." Or read the accompanying "LaTeX Memo Reference"
- in the file memo.ref.
-
-
- THE FILES
-
- There are four files that have to do with the LaTeX memo style
- at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
-
- memo.doc is the commented style file.
- memo.sty is the uncommented style file.
- memo.ref is an ASCII version of the memo manual.
- memotest.tex is a test file for memo.sty that can also be used
- as a template for users' own memos.
-
-
- ALTERING THE STYLE FILE
-
- If you need to adapt the style file to your own institution's
- memos, you should first run memotest.tex through latex and print
- the dvi file. Then read memo.ref to get a feel for the variety of
- output that can be expected.
-
- The easiest way to change the header is to design a memo header
- for your organization that will fit in place of
-
- Los Alamos
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
-
- You can then alter the commands that change the fonts (search for
- \@latwentyeight and \@spectwelve), and alter the \put commands in
- \@printletterpaper that print out the header.
-
- Your company's style may demand that you alter the part of the
- header that prints the date, mail stop, telephone, and so forth.
- In that case you will have to change the relevant \put statements
- in \@printmemopaper, as well as those in
- \@printfirstpageheaderinfo.
-
- The numbers in the parentheses in the \put statements are in
- points to the right from the left edge of the paper and down from
- the top edge of the paper.
-
- You may need to mess around with the value of
- \@dimenspacetosubject. This is the distance between the top of
- the page and the bottom of the SUBJECT line.
-
- Hopefully, you can live with most of our memo's style, such as the
- way initials and distribution lists are done. I tried to make the
- code as modular as possible for the sake of my own sanity, but I'm
- sure that I missed a lot of opportunities to make it easy to alter
- the style for new stylistic requirements.
-
- To use PostScript fonts with memo.sty, you must be using
- ArborText's DVIPS. If you are using another PostScript device
- driver, you will have to alter the appropriate \font commands in
- \@chooseheaderfonts and \@choosebodyfonts. You will have to make
- fancier changes if you are using classification labels.
-
- At the end of memo.doc, there is a list of all the variables and
- macros used in memo.sty that are not defined in LaTeX. Search for
- "END OF MEMO.DOC". There are also two lists of the more important
- macros defined in memo.doc. One is sorted alphabetically, and the
- other is sorted by line number.
-
-
- CHANGING THE .DOC FILE INTO A .STY FILE
-
- I use sed (a UNIX utility) to turn my memo.doc file into a
- memo.sty file. If you put the commands below into a file
- named sedfile, run
-
- sed -f sedfile memo.doc > memo.sty
-
- s/%.*/%/g
- s/[ ][ ]*/ /g
- s/^ //
- /^[ ]*%/d
- /^[ ]*$/d
- //d
-
- The parts of the lines that read [ ] are actually square
- brackets enclosing a blank and a tab character.
-
- Line 1 removes everything that follows %s.
- Line 2 converts multiple blanks into single spaces.
- Line 3 gets rid of blanks at the beginning of lines.
- Line 4 gets rid of lines containing only blanks and comments.
- Line 5 gets rid of lines containing only blanks.
- Line 6 gets rid of lines containing Control-L characters.
-
- This script only works because I follow certain conventions when I
- write TeX code. For example, if you use a blank line instead of
- an explicit \par token, the sed script will fail.
-
- \def\x{abc
-
- def}
-
- is NOT the same as
-
- \def\x{abc
- def}
-
- There may be other constructions that don't work with this sed
- script, so be careful. It IS really nice to have a commented doc
- file as well as its quicker running sty file, so it may be worth
- the extra care that it takes.
-
-
- WHERE I AM
-
- Feel free to write e-mail (sxs@lanl.gov) or phone (505-667-5460)
- or write a letter:
-
- Steve Sydoriak
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Group C-2, MS B253
- Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
-
- I might be able to help you stumble through some awkward piece of
- code.
-