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| -rw-r--r-- | tex/context/sample/davis.tex | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tex/context/sample/dawkins.tex | 4 | ||||
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diff --git a/tex/context/sample/bryson.tex b/tex/context/sample/bryson.tex new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ecda71c58 --- /dev/null +++ b/tex/context/sample/bryson.tex @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Imagine trying to live in a world dominated by dihydrogen oxide, a +compound that has no taste or smell and is so viable in its properties +that it is generally benign but at other times swiftly lethal. +Depending on its state, it can scald you or freeze you. In the +presence of certain organic molecules it can form carbonic acids so +nasty that they can strip the leaves from trees and eat the faces off +statuary. In bulk, when agitated, it can strike with a fury that no +human edifice could withstand. Even for those who have learned to live +with it, it is often murderous substance. We call it water.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/tex/context/sample/davis.tex b/tex/context/sample/davis.tex new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8d45c9849 --- /dev/null +++ b/tex/context/sample/davis.tex @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +This nation, turning 100 years old, had no {\em Odyssey}, no +St.~George slaying the dragon, no Prometheus. The emerging American +genius for making a lot of money was a poor substitute for King +Arthur and his knights (although the Horatio Alger myth of rags to +riches was good for a lot of mileage). Without a mythology and set +of ancient heroes to call its own, America had to manufacture its +heroes. So the mythmaking machinery of nineteenth|-|century American +media created a suitable heroic archetype in the cowboys of the Wild +West. The image was of the undaunted cattle drivers living a life of +reckless individualism, braving the elements, staving off brutal +Indian attacks. Or of heroic lawmen dueling with six|-|guns in the +streets at high noon. This artificial Wild West became America's +Iliad.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/tex/context/sample/dawkins.tex b/tex/context/sample/dawkins.tex index acb47b967..3490b79b0 100644 --- a/tex/context/sample/dawkins.tex +++ b/tex/context/sample/dawkins.tex @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ tails. Obviously one side had to lose, and they were asked to sit down. Then those who remained were divided into two, with half \quote {willing} heads and the other half tails. Again the losers sat down. And so on by successive halvings -until, inevitably. after seven or eight tosses, one +until, inevitably, after seven or eight tosses, one individual was left standing. \quotation {A big round of applause for our psychic.} He must be psychic, mustn't he, because he successfully influenced the coin eight times in -a row? +a row?
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/tex/context/sample/sample.tex b/tex/context/sample/sample.tex new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6e18f08d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/tex/context/sample/sample.tex @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +\starttext + +The sample directory contains a few files with quotes that can be used +while testing styles. I'll complete this file when I've reorganized my +books and audio cd's. + +\starttabulate[|l|l|p|] +\NC \bf file \NC \bf author \NC \bf source \NC \NR +\HL +%NC stork.tex \NC David F. Stork \NC \NC \NR +\NC knuth.tex \NC Donald E. Knuth \NC \NC \NR +\NC tufte.tex \NC Edward R. Tufte \NC \NC \NR +\NC reich.tex \NC Steve Reich \NC \NC \NR +\NC materie.tex \NC Louis Andriessen \NC De Materie \NC \NR +\NC douglas.tex \NC Douglas R. Hofstadter \NC \NC \NR +\NC dawkins.tex \NC Dawkins \NC \NC \NR +\NC ward.tex \NC Peter D. Ward \NC The Life and Death of Planet Earth \NC \NR +\NC zapf.tex \NC Hermann Zapf \NC About micro-typography and the hz-program, \endgraf + Electronic Publishing, vol. 6(3), \endgraf + 283-–288 (September 1993) \NC \NR +\NC bryson.tex \NC Bill Bryson \NC A Short History of Nearly Everything, \endgraf + Random House, 2003 \NC \NR +\NC davis.tex \NC Kenneth C. Davis \NC Don't Know Much About History, \endgraf + Everything You Need to Know About American + History but Never Learned, \endgraf + HarperCollins, 2003 \NC \NR +\stoptabulate + +\stoptext
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/tex/context/sample/ward.tex b/tex/context/sample/ward.tex index 7d5c0196b..9922beb6e 100644 --- a/tex/context/sample/ward.tex +++ b/tex/context/sample/ward.tex @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -The Earth, as a habitat for animal life, is in old age and +The Earth, as a habitat for animal life, is in old age and has a fatal illness. Several, in fact. It would be happening -whether humans has ever evolved or not. But our presence is +whether humans has ever evolved or not. But our presence is like the effect of an old|-|age patient who smokes many packs -of cigarettes per day |.| and we humans are the cigarettes. +of cigarettes per day |.| and we humans are the cigarettes.
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