Michael Shell's Homepage

Greetings! Welcome to my homepage. On this site, I've put together some pages of information that some people may find helpful. Various topics of interest include TeX/LaTeX, Unix (especially Linux) and just about anything else that I find might be worth putting online. Currently, the major divisions of my site are:

Fabulous Finds: Various products and services that I have found to be particularly helpful and/or of high quality.
TeX: Software I develop and maintain for the TeX/LaTeX typesetting system, including IEEEtran and Testflow.

I do have a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. If you want to view my dissertation, you can do so here.

If you would like to email me, see my contact information page.

Enjoy!

Note: I've attempted to try to maintain W3C XHTML/CSS standards compliance when creating these pages. In so doing, I tried to avoid the use of hack code (used by many/most other sites) to work around CSS/XHTML bugs in some browsers - particularly Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), especially versions prior to 7.0. As a result, if you are using IE you may notice some rendering errors such as: (1) The site map link being partially outside the navigation bar (because IE5\6 implements an incorrect CSS box model); (2) lack of boxes around the navigation bar links (because IE5\6 will not place borders around inline elements); (3) some text boxes left aligned when they should be centered (because IE5 does not understand CSS margin:auto); (4) the need to use full column width for some text boxes (because IE5\6\7 does not understand CSS display:table); (5) The browser view is allowed to be sized too narrow or wide (because IE5\6\7 does not understand CSS min-width or max-width).

If you are using IE for web browsing, please consider doing yourself (as well as web authors) a favor and try a far less buggy and more secure alternative such as the free Firefox browser. Furthermore, downloading and updating Firefox is far easier than with IE because the former, unlike the latter, does not require a massive download, an OS upgrade, and/or a license from Microsoft. Google has been promoting a version of Firefox with the Google toolbar (which I've put a link to at the foot of the page).

Ron Paul

A plug for a political effort to help save the world (no kidding) before it is too late:

Dr. Ron Paul for President in 2008

The man "they" don't want you to know about.

Dr. Ron Paul:

Actually has a conscience - no lying or amoral behavior;
Will get us out of Iraq;
Will secure our borders;
Will abolish the privately owned Federal Reserve system to end taxpayer enslavement by central bankers;
Will radically reduce the size of the federal government before it bankrupts the country;
Will eliminate the income tax and abolish the IRS;
Will terminate the "New World Order";
Will allow states to decide the abortion issue;
Will keep the internet free;
Will protect the right to bear firearms;
Will get the federal government out of our lives;
Will stop the North American Union (an insane plan to merge the United States, Canada and Mexico);
Is 100% "neocon" free;

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