[texhax] nar style

[Tom Schneider]

Robin:

> > > nar.sty is a snare and a delusion -- it's written for latex 2.09 (it's
> > > actually 16 years old), and as far as i can tell it does nothing for
> > > you that current latex article.cls doesn't do.
> > > 
> > > nar.bst i've not looked at.
> > > 
> > > (i'll move nar.sty to the obsolete/ tree tomorrow morning -- can't do
> > > it now -- my wife's already in bed...)
> > 
> > Hmm.  The nar.sty that he is talking about is the one I built and use
> > (successfully and I just tested it today!):
> > 
> > http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/latex.html
> > and then
> > ftp://ftp.ncifcrf.gov/pub/delila/nar.sty
> > 
> > I suspect this is not the same file as the one you are looking at.
> 
> indeed it isn't.  i hope the op is listening :-)

op = original poster??

> however, the "snare and delusion" that i talked about, on ctan,
> produces exactly the symptom reported.

Ah HA!

> i've moved the more recent of the two(!) instances of nar.sty on ctan
> to the obsolete/ tree, and deleted the other.
> 
> which leaves a slot for you to submit your working version, should you
> fancy the idea.  (see http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=uploads)

Trouble is, it is one of many on my page.  I'd have to got through
them carefully.  Maybe in 5 years?  Anyone who would like to do these
is welcome to (some have seeped into CTAN).  They are biology related
files.

> narfront.cls seems to be an elsevier ripoff; it points at your web
> site: is it in any way official?

That's right - I probably got it from elsevier and modified it so it
worked correctly.  Documentation about what I did should be inside the
file.  So it wouldn't be official.

Tom

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  Molecular Information Theory Group
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