AlphaWiki/Profiles/DonavanHall

Donavan Hall is maintaining the AlphaDocumentation site where lots of great documentation resides:

Personal Note: I suppose that I have dropped off the edge of the world. I've not forgotten Alpha or its documentation. Five months ago I switched careers and have been distracted with the mundanities of life. I don't know how I would do my work without Alpha. Now Alpha is more important to me than ever. Long live Alpha. (1 March 2003)

hall@mailaps.org

NOTES:

Mail Mode Ideas

mail templates for routine forms that need to be filled out and mailed
signatures created and selected in Alpha
implement Emacs bindings for Mail mode (not strictly necessary, but nice for old Emacs folks)
support for "Reply-to:" field
auto wrapping of unwrapped text in mail window
optional toggle to Setx mode for message reading and composition
"Send" hot text in composition window
menu item to Trash selected message in browse window
internal handling of "Nicknames"

Other Projects

An Introduction to Authoring Systems

 
        Covers all aspects of authoring documents using a Macintosh.  Text
        processing with Alpha; typesetting with Tex; BibTeX; Excalibur; content
        databases; scripting for authors.

Typesetting for Physicists: Using RevTeX and TeXsis

 
        Provides comprehensive documentation for these two TeX macro packages.
        Include a chapter on "How TeX Works" and another on using these packages to
        generate PDF files.

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