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In article <4653@undis.cs.chalmers.se> jeffrey@cs.chalmers.se (Alan Jeffrey) writes:
>
>On the subject of an ms.sty, the main problem is getting the fonts
>together.  As DEK pointed out, if you want to take things like
>underlining seriously, you need a separate font for it, especially
>when you start using full markup and need things like wavy-underlining
>and triple-underlining.  There's also real headaches with mathematics,
>which you don't want to know about.  But as a few examples:
>
>   Let $a$ be a pudding      should appear as    Let _a_ be a pudding
>   Let $x$ be a pudding      should appear as    Let x be a pudding
>   Then $f(a)$ is a box      should appear as    Then f(a) is a box
>   Then $fa$ is a box        should appear as    Then _fa_ is a box
>
>Obviously, this is completely impossible to generate by machine, so
>you're better off making do with every bit of mathematics underlined.
>Which isn't what the compositor is used to seeing, and therefore takes
>more time, and therefore takes more money.
>
>One of these days, unless anyone beats me to it (please do) I'll get
>round to sticking together a full family of cmtt fonts with various
>sorts of underlining, and put together a ms.sty to go with it.  But
>it'll be a lot of work, and it won't get done until next year
>sometime.

Most of this has been done already, well, by Don Hosek.  See his
cmpica fonts, on ymir.  These are variants of cmtt, in versions that
include having each character underlined, and again, having each 
character having an under-squiggle (i.e., bold markup), and 
the right ligatures for quote marks and hyphens.  So you can type
using ordinary TeX conventions (\it, \bf, '', ---, etc.) and if
you define \it to be cmpicaunderlined (I forget it's real name) etc.,
the outcome is almost exactly like a typed and marked-up MS.

Math is another ball game.

Dominik