Colophon

The Canadian Oxford Dictionary defines a colophon as

a statement at the end of a manuscript or book giving information about its authorship and production. [Late Latin from Greek kolophon summit, finishing touch]

Part of this work is the result of many different inputs under the editorship of Prof. Marc LaViolette. Over the last 30 years, many trials have been made to guide the Royal Military College's mechanical engineering students towards better writing. This is a collated and revamped version of all the information that was distributed to the students. It remains anonymous because the origins of much of the source material have been lost. The traceable material was authored by Prof. David Duquesnay, Prof. Mike Bardon, Prof. Craig Moffatt, Prof. Ernst Eder, Prof. Habib Benabdallah and Prof. Marc LaViolette. Further more a large part was added by Prof. Marc LaViolette to fill in large gaps in the material.

This document was prepared using L^ATEX2_e. This programme is not a word processor but rather a powerful text formatter that takes all the labour out of preparing manuscripts. It also does neat things like proper ligatures, the setting of equations and typesetting that no word processor can match. Thanks should go to Donald E. Knuth, the author of TEX, for freely giving this computer programme to the world.