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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Third attempt…</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">_____________________________________________<BR>
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B></B></SPAN><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">From:</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> Richard Gould <</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><A HREF="mailto:rhgould@rhgould.uk"><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><U></U></SPAN><U><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0563C1" FACE="Calibri">rhgould@rhgould.uk</FONT></SPAN></U><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">><BR>
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B></B></SPAN><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Sent:</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> 30 November 2020 12:32<BR>
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B></B></SPAN><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">To:</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> 'uktug-announce' <</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><A HREF="mailto:uktug-announce-bounces+rhgould=rhgould.uk@tug.org"><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><U></U></SPAN><U><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0563C1" FACE="Calibri">uktug-announce-bounces+rhgould=rhgould.uk@tug.org</FONT></SPAN></U><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">><BR>
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B></B></SPAN><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Subject:</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> UK-TUG Projects</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Dear fellow-members,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I have been a lurking member for some years now but have not felt that I had the necessary “TeXpertise” to make a meaningful contribution to the organisation’s meetings or other activities.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I joined the Group partly to make a small financial contribution after many years of using and enjoying the benefits of TeX and LaTeX but mainly in the hope of finding someone who could help me get to grips with writing style files. There has been no obvious way within UK-TUG to achieve this so I have continued to dabble with self-teaching and reverse engineering existing style files but the former hasn’t been conspicuously successful and the latter has proved too daunting. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">So this is an area where I believe a UK-TUG-sponsored project might bear fruit. Much as I applaud the effort put into LearnLaTeX, there are plenty of beginners’ guides out there and the target audience (mostly undergraduates or precocious sixth-formers I would assume) are well-supported by local tutors. A guide to style files would, on the other hand, serve more experienced users who need to produce templates for consistent documents across departments in their organisation, or just to encapsulate their own preferences.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">If anyone is interested in taking this on I would certainly volunteer to be a guinea pig. If, on the other hand, I have missed some obvious alternative source of guidance on style-file creation, I do hope someone will point me in the right direction. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">--</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Richard H Gould</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">H: +44 (0) 1865 327825</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">M: +44 (0) 7824 430690</FONT></SPAN></P>
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