[texhax] Strikeout words

[Tom Schneider]

Michael:

> Does anyone have a good macro for striking out words?  I could not figure
> out what to search for on CTAN.

Someone mentioned 'soul' which is a nice answer if you already know
that it is that is a good answer, but useless otherwise!

Soul does letterspacing, capitals, small capitals, underlining,
overstriking and highlighting.

Here are my notes on it:

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2006 Jan 5
Notes by Tom Schneider
~toms/delila/soul

% google: latex highlight
http://www.devdaily.com/blog/Content/2/18/407/
\usepackage{soul}
usage: \hl{highlighted text}

ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/soul/

wget ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/soul/soul.dtx

    20  make
failed

    22  latex soul.dtx

error.  Control c.

    23  tex soul.ins
    24  ls
    25  latex soul.dtx
    26  latex soul.dtx
    27  latex soul.dtx

worked.

wget ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/soul/soul.pdf

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The wget program grabs web pages:

http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/wget.html

So the last note is how to get the manual.

Tom

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