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The Alternative Orange was funded by the Student Government Association and Graduate Student Association of Syracuse University (Syracuse, New York).

Newspapers were created using PageMaker on a Macintosh. These issues were checked against an original copy for accuracy: (, , ,).

Hyper-text Markup Language (HTML) files found on Internet were derived from an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) document using James Clark's jade (an implementation of DSSSL style language). Command used to generate HTML was: “jade -d /usr/lib/dsssl/stylesheets/docbook/html/docbook.dsl -t sgml /usr/lib/sgml/declaration/xml.decl FILENAME.xml” (Debian “slink” 2.1). With version 2.2 of Debian (“potato”) the stylesheet is at “/usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dsssl/docbook/nwalsh/html/docbook.dsl”.

The document type declaration in the source XML document reads: <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//Norman Walsh//DTD DocBk XML V3.1.3//EN" "dtd/docbook-xml/docbookx.dtd" [ … ]>

The value of %use-id-as-filename% was changed from #f to #t in the modular DocBook Stylesheet (dbparam.dsl) used to create HTML. This caused jade to use the ID= value from an article plus “.html” when naming output file.

The source XML document was composed on a Compaq LTE ELITE 4/50CX laptop with an 486 processor, 16 megabytes memory and an 810 meg. hard-drive. Free software was used for composition. From specific to general, said software includes PSGML (a method to facilitate SGML & XML markup written by Lennart Staflin), GNU Emacs (an application invented by Richard Stallman that can switch to PSGML mode ), and operating system GNU/Linux (in particular, the one-and-only volunteer distribution, Debian).