From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: VERTEX on FILESERV/Niord
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 15:29:40 CDT
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After pestering him in e-mail messages over a few years, Hal Varian has
kindly provided me with the files for his VERTEX packages, which are now
available from SHSU.  Whether his decision was based on shutting me up or
in his own recognition that this is a valuable package in its own right, I
may never know -- however, I extend my sincerest thanks to him (for the
economists out there -- yes, it is *that* Hal Varian; I'll pester just
about anyone in e-mail).  Some years back (1987 or 1988), he generously
provided me these files -- they have many neat tricks which I have employed
in designing layouts for various economics and business-related periodicals
since that time.

Attached is the description file for this package.  As noted, it is
sincerely hoped that the field of economics can get a little closer to our
"hard" science colleagues in developing TeX tools for our profession --
VERTEX is a good candidate for a starting point!!

Regards,   George
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                                  VERTEX
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The VERTEX package includes Hal Varian's <Hal.Varian@umich.edu> macros to
Visualize Economic Reports in TeX.  Please note that (a) this package is
based on plain TeX and is not an extension to any other package now
available, (b) it is relatively old, although not outdated, and (c) it is
not presently supported by its author.  Professor Varian, adequately busy
with his own research agenda at Michigan, his textbooks (which he has
prepared in TeX, by the way!), and his other highly recognized activities,
was kind enough to allow the SHSU archives to include this work.  It is
hoped that the work he has provided may serve as a springboard for further
developments in the field of economics within other TeX-related packages. 
Indeed, he hints that this may be reviewed by him for further development
as an application in LaTeX and BibTeX once LaTeX3 is available.

The package is based around a controlling macro, VERTEX.TEX, which calls
various styles for production.  These styles (specific to VERTEX -- these
are NOT LaTeX styles) produce output largely compatible with the following
economic journals (economists will recognize the twist on titles used by
Varian), including multicolumn layout (where appropriate), location of
footnotes and formatting of references sections.  They include:
 AER.STY --- for the Armenian Economic Review.
 ECNMET.STY --- for Economagica.
 JEP.STY --- for the Journal of Economic Perspectives.
 JET.STY --- for the Journal of Economic Theorems.
 JPE.STY --- for the Journal of Polemical Economy.
 QJE.STY --- for the Quartered Journal of Economics.
 RESTUD.STY --- for Review for Economic Students.

To retrieve the package of 19 files, include the command:
 SENDME VERTEX
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). 
To retrieve a specific file, such as VERTEX.VERTEX_TEX, include:
 SENDME VERTEX.VERTEX_TEX
in your mail message to FILESERV.  The files, both individually and as a
ZIP archive, are available for anonymous ftp retrieval from Niord.SHSU.edu
(192.92.115.8) in [FILESERV.VERTEX].

Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes)
File                 Blocks  Save file as:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
VERTEX.AER_STY           10  AER.STY      
VERTEX.ECNMET_STY        10  ECNMET.STY   
VERTEX.FILES_LST          3  FILES.LST    
VERTEX.FNTEST_TEX         8  FNTEST.TEX   
VERTEX.JEPCONT_TEX        8  JEPCONT.TEX  
VERTEX.JEP_STY           12  JEP.STY      
VERTEX.JET_STY           11  JET.STY      
VERTEX.JPE_STY            9  JPE.STY      
VERTEX.PPT_STY           12  PPT.STY      
VERTEX.QJE_STY           11  QJE.STY      
VERTEX.READ_ME            4  READ.ME      
VERTEX.RESTUD_STY        13  RESTUD.STY   
VERTEX.TEST_TEX          10  TEST.TEX     
VERTEX.TWOCOL_TEX         6  TWOCOL.TEX   
VERTEX.USERS_LST          4  USERS.LST    
VERTEX.VERTEST_TEX        2  VERTEST.TEX  
VERTEX.VERTEX_DOC        25  VERTEX.DOC   
VERTEX.VERTEX_HST         6  VERTEX.HST   
VERTEX.VERTEX_TEX        33  VERTEX.TEX   

Approximate total blocks in full VERTEX package = 197