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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Do you know these macros?
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Date: 18 Sep 90 15:32:06 GMT
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In-reply-to: neubauer@bsu-ucs.uucp (Paul Neubauer)

>>>>> On 15 Sep 90 15:51:21 GMT, neubauer@bsu-ucs.uucp (Paul Neubauer) said:

Paul> I have now built a number of the WSU IPA fonts from ymir (Thanks
Paul> again) and I was about to try to read the documentation (printing
Paul> which requires the fonts).  I started to run it through TeX and
Paul> immediately got:

Paul> 	! Undefined control sequence.
Paul> 	l.2 \asisformat
Paul> 	               {\skipbefore{6pt}
Paul> 	? x

Paul> It turns out that IPAMAN.TEX, the documentation for the WSU fonts
Paul> contains a number of macros that I do not recognize.  They are not
Paul> LaTeX, nor do they seem to be AMS macros (at least they do not show
Paul> up in the index of {\it The Joy of \TEX\/}.  I have no idea where to
Paul> get them or what they are.  Does anybody recognize a macro package or
Paul> whatever that contains the following?

These are from the TEXT1 system also from WSU.

See TUGboat, 11, 1, page 54.
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