[9fans] mimicking Plan 9 paper style with LaTeX?

[9fans] mimicking Plan 9 paper style with LaTeX?

[Axel Belinfante]

any known recipes to make a LaTeX document
'visually similar to the Plan 9 papers'
of /sys/doc/9 ?

Axel.

Re: [9fans] mimicking Plan 9 paper style with LaTeX?

[erik quanstrom]

i would think it would be easier to do that TeX directly.

- erik

Re: Re: [9fans] mimicking Plan 9 paper style with LaTeX?

[andrey mirtchovski]

to get the font used in the p9 papers try the following command in
your prologue:

\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}

the chapter numbering will require a style change but i don't know it
yet. i'll let you know if i figure it out.

Re: [9fans] mimicking Plan 9 paper style with LaTeX?

[arisawa]

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Hello,

> any known recipes to make a LaTeX document
> 'visually similar to the Plan 9 papers'
> of /sys/doc/9 ?
>

Mine is, substitutiong "article.cls" by


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and main changes of paper document are as follows.

\documentclass[10pt]{p9article}
\textwidth 150mm
\textheight 230mm
\topmargin -11mm
\oddsidemargin 0mm
\evensidemargin 0mm
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{cmss}
\title{{\sf\Large\bfseries Pegasus} \\
{\large\bfseries --- another web server for Plan 9 ---}}
\author{\normalsize \it Kenji Arisawa, Aichi University\\
{\normalsize\tt arisawa@aichi-u.ac.jp}}
\date{}

\begin{document}
\sf
\maketitle\thispagestyle{empty}
...

Re: [9fans] mimicking Plan 9 paper style with LaTeX?

[Axel Belinfante]

> > any known recipes to make a LaTeX document
> > 'visually similar to the Plan 9 papers'
> > of /sys/doc/9 ?
> >
> 
> Mine is, substitutiong "article.cls" by
[...]

thanks, I'm trying it.

the plan 9 papers seems to use whitespace-separated
paragraphs instead of indented ones.
I'm trying to achieve that effect with additional commands in
the document; I guess it could be done in p9article.cls instead.

before the \begin{document} I add:

\setlength\parindent{0pt}
\setlength\parskip{0.25\baselineskip} % the 0.25 is just a guess

these seem not to affect the abstract,
so I also add after the \begin{abstract} :

\setlength\parindent{0pt}
\setlength\parskip{0.25\baselineskip}
\noindent



Axel.

Re: [9fans] mimicking Plan 9 paper style with LaTeX?

[arisawa]

> the plan 9 papers seems to use whitespace-separated
> paragraphs instead of indented ones.

I didn't aware that. sorry.

> \setlength\parindent{0pt}
> \setlength\parskip{0.25\baselineskip} % the 0.25 is just a guess

looks fine.

Thanks.

Kenji Arisawa

Re: [9fans] mimicking Plan 9 paper style with LaTeX?

[arisawa]

I wrote

>
>
>> any known recipes to make a LaTeX document
>> 'visually similar to the Plan 9 papers'
>> of /sys/doc/9 ?
>>
>>
>
> Mine is, substitutiong "article.cls" by
> ...
>

But it seems that the mail has lost the following lines:

\documentclass[10pt]{p9article}
\textwidth 150mm
\textheight 230mm
\topmargin -11mm
\oddsidemargin 0mm
\evensidemargin 0mm
\usepackage{txfonts}
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{cmss}
\title{{\sf\Large\bfseries Pegasus} \\
{\large\bfseries --- another web server for Plan 9 ---}}
\author{\normalsize \it Kenji Arisawa, Aichi University\\
{\normalsize\tt arisawa@aichi-u.ac.jp}}
\date{}
\begin{document}
\sf


In addition above, the remark by Alex is helphul:
\setlength\parindent{0pt}
\setlength\parskip{0.25\baselineskip} % the 0.25 is just a guess


Kenji Arisawa

Re: [9fans] mimicking Plan 9 paper style with LaTeX?

[Abhey Shah]

One final thing how do you get the page numbering on the center top of
the page??
thanks
Abhey
On 30 Oct 2006, at 23:58, arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote:

> I wrote
>
>>
>>
>>> any known recipes to make a LaTeX document
>>> 'visually similar to the Plan 9 papers'
>>> of /sys/doc/9 ?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Mine is, substitutiong "article.cls" by
>> ...
>>
>
> But it seems that the mail has lost the following lines:
>
> \documentclass[10pt]{p9article}
> \textwidth 150mm
> \textheight 230mm
> \topmargin -11mm
> \oddsidemargin 0mm
> \evensidemargin 0mm
> \usepackage{txfonts}
> \renewcommand{\familydefault}{cmss}
> \title{{\sf\Large\bfseries Pegasus} \\
> {\large\bfseries --- another web server for Plan 9 ---}}
> \author{\normalsize \it Kenji Arisawa, Aichi University\\
> {\normalsize\tt arisawa@aichi-u.ac.jp}}
> \date{}
> \begin{document}
> \sf
>
>
> In addition above, the remark by Alex is helphul:
> \setlength\parindent{0pt}
> \setlength\parskip{0.25\baselineskip} % the 0.25 is just a guess
>
>
> Kenji Arisawa
>
>

Re: [9fans] mimicking Plan 9 paper style with LaTeX?

[arisawa]

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Hello,

> One final thing how do you get the page numbering on the center top
> of the page??

the following are lost in the previous mail.

\maketitle\thispagestyle{empty}

I'm afraid this is not what you want to know.
I could not understand what you said. sorry.

by the way, my configuration is not so good.
for example 10pt in document class might be 11pt.
the paper width and height are for A4 paper that is popular in Japan.

a better version is attached below.

Kenji Arisawa


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      \@mkboth{\MakeUppercase\listfigurename}%
              {\MakeUppercase\listfigurename}%
    \@starttoc{lof}%
    }
\newcommand*\l@figure{\@dottedtocline{1}{1.5em}{2.3em}}
\newcommand\listoftables{%
    \section*{\listtablename}%
      \@mkboth{%
          \MakeUppercase\listtablename}%
         {\MakeUppercase\listtablename}%
    \@starttoc{lot}%
    }
\let\l@table\l@figure
\newdimen\bibindent
\setlength\bibindent{1.5em}
\newenvironment{thebibliography}[1]
     {\section*{\refname}%
      \@mkboth{\MakeUppercase\refname}{\MakeUppercase\refname}%
      \list{\@biblabel{\@arabic\c@enumiv}}%
           {\settowidth\labelwidth{\@biblabel{#1}}%
            \leftmargin\labelwidth
            \advance\leftmargin\labelsep
            \@openbib@code
            \usecounter{enumiv}%
            \let\p@enumiv\@empty
            \renewcommand\theenumiv{\@arabic\c@enumiv}}%
      \setlength{\itemsep}{0em} % -Kenar-
      \sloppy
      \clubpenalty4000
      \@clubpenalty \clubpenalty
      \widowpenalty4000%
      \sfcode`\.\@m}
     {\def\@noitemerr
       {\@latex@warning{Empty `thebibliography' environment}}%
      \endlist}
\newcommand\newblock{\hskip .11em\@plus.33em\@minus.07em}
\let\@openbib@code\@empty
\newenvironment{theindex}
               {\if@twocolumn
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                \else
                  \@restonecoltrue
                \fi
                \columnseprule \z@
                \columnsep 35\p@
                \twocolumn[\section*{\indexname}]%
                \@mkboth{\MakeUppercase\indexname}%
                        {\MakeUppercase\indexname}%
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\newcommand\indexspace{\par \vskip 10\p@ \@plus5\p@ \@minus3\p@\relax}
\renewcommand\footnoterule{%
  \kern-3\p@
  \hrule\@width.4\columnwidth
  \kern2.6\p@}
\newcommand\@makefntext[1]{%
    \parindent 1em%
    \noindent
    \hb@xt@1.8em{\hss\@makefnmark}#1}
\newcommand\contentsname{Contents}
\newcommand\listfigurename{List of Figures}
\newcommand\listtablename{List of Tables}
\newcommand\refname{References}
\newcommand\indexname{Index}
\newcommand\figurename{Figure}
\newcommand\tablename{Table}
\newcommand\partname{Part}
\newcommand\appendixname{Appendix}
\newcommand\abstractname{{\it ABSTRACT}} % -Kenar-
\def\today{\ifcase\month\or
  January\or February\or March\or April\or May\or June\or
  July\or August\or September\or October\or November\or December\fi
  \space\number\day, \number\year}
\setlength\columnsep{10\p@}
\setlength\columnseprule{0\p@}
\pagestyle{plain}
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\if@twoside
\else
  \raggedbottom
\fi
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  \onecolumn
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%% End of file `article.cls'.

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Re: [9fans] mimicking Plan 9 paper style with LaTeX?

[Skip Tavakkolian]

this works for me.  troffms.sty is already in plan9 tex distribution.
it is for use with tr2latex.  textheight is abit long for letter size.

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{troffms}	% <--
\usepackage{graphicx}	% others ...
\textheight=8.5in
\begin{document}
\title{Time Travelers' Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations}
\author{Dr. Dan Streetmentioner}
\begin{abstract}
....

Re: Re: [9fans] mimicking Plan 9 paper style with LaTeX?

[andrey mirtchovski]

+10 points for using the Guide :)

On 11/6/06, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote:
> this works for me.  troffms.sty is already in plan9 tex distribution.
> it is for use with tr2latex.  textheight is abit long for letter size.
>
> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
> \usepackage{troffms}    % <--
> \usepackage{graphicx}   % others ...
> \textheight=8.5in
> \begin{document}
> \title{Time Travelers' Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations}
> \author{Dr. Dan Streetmentioner}
> \begin{abstract}
> ....
>
>

Re: Re: Re: [9fans] mimicking Plan 9 paper style with LaTeX?

[andrey mirtchovski]

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i think i finally dialled it. see the attach comparison.

the changes are:

i'm using p9article.cls, modified:

changed:

\ProvidesClass{article} -> \ProvidesClass{p9article}

removed "date" from the maketitle definition

the rest is in the .tex file:

\documentclass[11pt]{p9article}
\textheight 230mm
\textwidth 150mm
\topmargin +5mm
\oddsidemargin 0mm
\evensidemargin 0mm
\setlength\parindent{0pt}  % no indentation on any paragraph start
\setlength\parskip{0.25\baselineskip}           % paragraphs are close
\renewcommand\baselinestretch{0.8}           % lines are closer
together in auth.ps
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}    % should be similar font to auth.ps

% the following two commands bring \section and \subsection closer to the text
% you may have to add a line for \subsubsection if you have such
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@} {3pt} {1pt}
{\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}}
\renewcommand\subsection{\@startsection {subsection}{1}{\z@} {3pt}
{1pt} {\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}}
\makeatother

% the title text needs to match auth.ps, so these changes are required
\begin{document}
\title{\Large\textbf{Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow}}
\author{\large
    \begin{tabular}{c}
    \textsl{Andrey Mirtchovski}\\
    \textsl{Unidentified Location}\\
    \texttt{andrey@nothere.bg}\\
    \end{tabular}
}

% no page numbers in title
\maketitle\thispagestyle{empty}
% in fact, no page numbers anywhere
\pagestyle{empty}

\begin{abstract}
\setlength\parindent{0pt}
\setlength\parskip{0.25\baselineskip}
The mating habits of insects are quite different from those of large mammals.
\end{abstract}
\section{Introduction}
....

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Re: [9fans] mimicking Plan 9 paper style with LaTeX?

[Axel Belinfante]

> i think i finally dialled it. see the attach comparison.

silly question but I'll ask it anyway:
with this, do you run latex on plan 9 or on unix?

Axel.

Re: Re: [9fans] mimicking Plan 9 paper style with LaTeX?

[andrey mirtchovski]

both, actually. i just tried it on Plan 9 and it looks fine (just had
to switch to graphicx for graphics)

On 11/7/06, Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl> wrote:
> > i think i finally dialled it. see the attach comparison.
>
> silly question but I'll ask it anyway:
> with this, do you run latex on plan 9 or on unix?
>
> Axel.
>