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Warren,<br>
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As a programmer, I've found the LaTeX documentation difficult to
navigate for real programming.<br>
<br>
If you're managing to cut through it, please consider writing up simple
notes for those of us who would like get going with you.<br>
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Thanks.<br>
<br>
,Doug<br>
Douglas Lewan<br>
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hgi escreveu:<br>
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  <pre wrap="">My thanks to Herbert for suggesting package fancybox for throwing a box 
around an entire page.  It worked like a charm!

I have a couple of other questions - one is about variables.  How can I 
programatically determine the number of letters in a word?  I'm hoping for 
something like (I'm making this up) $z=LetterCount{some words in here}.  I 
would like to make some macros that could use this functionality.

Is there a good place to read of examples, etc.?

I'm fast discovering that Tex has amazing potential!

Thanks so much!

-Warren

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,Doug<br>
Douglas Lewan<br>
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            <td>email:        </td>
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      <td> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Make sure all variables are initialized<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;before use. <br>
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