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67 lines
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\documentclass{hitec}
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\newcommand{\HT}{\textsc{\raisebox{0.1em}{h}\raisebox{-0.1em}{i}%
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\raisebox{0.1em}{t}\raisebox{-0.1em}{e}\raisebox{0.1em}{c} }}
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\title{The \HT class}
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\author{Eli Billauer}
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\company{The Company, Ltd}
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\confidential{\textbf{-- Unlimited Distribution --}}
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\usepackage{hyperref} % This line is readily ommited of it makes trouble
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\begin{document}
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\maketitle
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\section{The general idea}
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This short paper is mainly a demonstration page to show what the papers written with
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this class will look like.
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The document class is a hack on the well-known \texttt{article} class, where pieces of \TeX
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\hspace{0pt} code has been stolen from a couple of other classes.
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This class completes, in my opinion, the set of tools needed to use \LaTeX \hspace{0pt}
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in a hi-tec environment, where Microsoft rules too often. I'm delighted by the fact
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that Xemacs and \LaTeX \hspace{0pt} run in a win32 environment, and that proper pdf's
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can be produced using utilities such as \texttt{pdflatex} or \texttt{dvipdfm}.
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These allow me to get a Linux-feeling even when running Windows. Even better: I can
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write technical documents the way I like, and produce pdf's that noone will complain about.
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But I discovered that there was no way to escape the academic look of the well-known
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\texttt{article} document class. There are many other classes around, yes, but almost
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all of them smell quite the same. Academy is not a four-letter word, but when a paper is
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submitted to your boss, he better not get the wrong impression before even reading it.
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So, in order to solve \emph{my} problem of giving my documents a nice outfit, I started
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the adventure of modifying \texttt{article}. While doing that, I understood why noone
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else has yet published such a class...
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\section{hitec vs. article}
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Papers that were compiled neatly as \texttt{article} are expected to give a fairly nice
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result right away after changing to \HT. The only exception is that \HT doesn't work
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with two-column documents. Such documents' compilation will be aborted with an error
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message.
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Aside from that, the \HT class behaves a bit differently regarding document information:
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\begin{itemize}
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\item The \verb+\author+ command \emph{can not} be repeated to
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present more than one author. This wasn't an attempt to reflect the loneliness of hi-tec
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workers, as opposed to the academic world, where they always work in pairs. The reason
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is technical: The author's name appears on all pages (hi-tec, right?) and there's no place
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for a list of people. In the case of multiple authors (did you waste time working together?)
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write them all in a single line. Remember that omitting an author can be a very painful
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mistake, and this will happen with no warning when switching to \HT.
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\item The \verb+\company+ command allows you not only to tell who you are,
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but also who you're working for.
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\item The \verb+\confidential+ command has been added, to allow companies
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to mark their papers as confidential.
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\end{itemize}
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\section{Just a small tip}
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If a pdf is your final target, going \verb+\usepackage{hyperref}+
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in the beginning of your document is very recommended. The \texttt{hyperref} package
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will not only create web-like links where there are references to equations or sections,
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but it also creates the well-known bookmark list.
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\section{Summary}
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The \HT class was designed to allow \LaTeX \hspace{0pt} to produce papers that suite
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the hi-tec world, in functionality and appearance. Together with other free software,
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a Windows-running PC can become a comfortable platform for creating impressive pdf documents
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using well-tested tools.
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\end{document}
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