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From: mamon@acf4.UUCP (Gary Mamon)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: help for a TeX neophyte
Message-ID: <12880007@acf4.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Sep-87 20:48:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 17 20:48:00 1987
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cdash@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Charles Shub) writes:
> I have a bunch of previously formatted documents that were formatted
> by a long lost document formatter. I want to use TeX to embolden
> a few words here and there, italicize a few words here and there, 
> and the like. I would also like to specify a specific font for the 
> entire document. I do NOT want TeX to rearange line breaks or white space
> between lines. Our local TeX users have not been much help, so I am turning to
> the net.

Although I'm only a TeXnician (instead of a TeXpert) I'll give a try at this
one.

At the beginning of your file type (ignoring the tabs):

	\magnification 1200
	\obeylines %This should break up the lines as they appear on screen.
	\obeyspaces %This should force TeX to use your spaces.

If you want to use a special font by default you have to load it at the begin-
ning. For example if you want the "Caps" font as the default, type:

	\font\caps=amcsc10
	\caps

after the line with the "magnification" statement.
Whenever you want to have a string come out in bold type

	{\bf [string]}

where [string] is the string.

For italics, do the same with "it" instead of "bf".

At the end of your file, type:

	\bye

And you're all set! Let me know if it works.


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