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This is produced by Robert %%% Solovay's checksum utility.", %%% } %%% ==================================================================== \begin{thebibliography}{00} \bibitem{lamport-86} Leslie Lamport. {\it \itlatex: A Document Preparation System.} Addison-Wesley, 1986 \bibitem{m+s-89} Frank Mittelbach and Rainer Sch\"{o}pf. \lq\lq With \LaTeX\ into the Nineties'', {\it TUGboat}, {\bf 10} (1989), pp. 681--690. \bibitem{chicago-82} {\it The Chicago Manual of Style.} Thirteenth Edition. University of Chicago Press, 1982. \bibitem{butcher-81} Judith Butcher. {\it Copy-editing.} Second edition. Cambridge University Press, 1981. \bibitem{mclean-80} Ruari McLean. {\it The Thames and Hudson Manual of Typography.} Thames and Hudson, 1980. \bibitem{williamson-83} Hugh Williamson. {\it Methods of Book Design.} Third Edition. Yale University Press, 1983. \bibitem{hart-83} {\it Hart's Rules [for compositors and readers at the University Press, Oxford].} Thirty-ninth edition. 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