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The current document is organized into sections, subsections, and subsubsections using the LaTeX macros \section, etc. (Exactly as this status document is, by the way). Both latex2html and HyperTeX, when asked with a \tableofcontents macro, automatically structure the document so that individual sections, subsections, etc are accessible from the Table of Contents. Similarly, references are now clickable. That happened automatically by using \cite. Bibtex worked just fine with both HyperTeX and latex2html.

The process now for including figures is simple: for a postscript figure, we use a LaTeX macro to put a pointer to the figure into the text, which when clicked on automatically brings up GhostView (see Figure 1). For a colour figure, we produce the figure (using for example Maple), take a `snapshot' of the figure using the (Unix SGI?) program snapshot and store the result as an rgb file; and place a pointer with the same LaTeX\ macro into the text. Now, clicking on Figure 2 in the document simply brings up the figure, using xv (X-view).

The procedure for making Maple worksheets available for downloading is equally simple (the same macro does it all). Once downloaded, a local copy of Maple can be run and the worksheets loaded in the usual way.



Rob Corless
Mon Jun 12 12:02:40 PDT 1995