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Jake Week Hilty January 11, 2009
Readings This week please read nothing new, please remember you don't have to read sections marked with a double dangerous curve sign This week we are focusing on some of the trickier portions of the macros section from last week. Specifically, we will be focusing on conditionals, and possibly a few of the other things on pg 209 & 213.
Exercise 1 (Delimiting Arguments) Now that you know how the \proclaim macro, on pg 202, works, use a similar scheme to design a macro for putting a heading at the top of your papers that looks like the one at the top of this paper. If you want you can delimit the first argument with a period like the proclaim command, but the basic layout should be the same. Exercise 2 (Registers) This exercise references some earlier material from the section on chapter 15 so you may want to review that chapter before trying this (specifically pgs. 117121 regarding registers). In this chapter there is a \proclaim function for making theorems, but usually theorems follow pretty specific rules when you are typesetting new ones, such that each one in a chapter is labeled: chapter number.theorem number like this: 2.4 Theorem would indicate the fourth theorem in chapter 2. Write a macro that utilizes two registers chapNo and theNo such that every time you call \theorem it automatically numbers the theorem number and chapter number and typesets the rest of it as proclaim is defined on pg. 202. (NOTE:It may behoove you to also make a \chapter macro as well that resets your theorem number and changes the chapter number.) Exercise 3 (Recursion and Conditionals ) In this exercise we are going to write a simple recursive macro. If you don't know what recursion is please go take a look at the wikipedia article on Recursion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion). In this macro there should we are going to utilize...