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+File: ed-nfss.txt 19/7/94. This is a plain ascii file.
+
+ Please note that the following method of using EDMAC within
+ LaTeX2e is still experimental. Initial trials with real-life
+ book preparation, however, seem to work well.
+
+The New Font Selection Scheme (NFSS) is the normal font-handling scheme
+used by LaTeX from version 2e (June 1994). It is described in the book
+"The LaTeX Companion" by Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin
+(Addison-Wesley, 1993), chapter 7.
+
+To use this font scheme with EDMAC, you first need to install LaTeX2e.
+After doing this, you should have a new format file called something
+like "latex.fmt", which contains a dump of the LaTeX macros. To use
+this LaTeX2e format you might type a command like "tex &latex
+<filename>" where <filename> is the name of the TeX input file you wish
+to run through LaTeX2e.
+
+To use EDMAC and NFSS together, you will do exactly the same as running
+a normal LaTeX2e job, with the addition that you use the macro package
+"edmacfss" (i.e., edmacfss.sty) and apart from the first couple of lines
+of your EDMAC file, you treat your document as a standard EDMAC file.
+That is to say, only EDMAC and Plain TeX commands will work, and not
+LaTeX2e macros (except those required for NFSS).
+
+[In fact, this is a white lie: you may have some limited luck using a
+few other LaTeX2e commands, but this is rather hit-and-miss. In
+particular, EDMAC uses its own output routine, not LaTeX2e's, so lots
+and lots of stuff specific to the LaTeX output routine (like float
+placement) won't get executed.]
+
+Here is a sample of what an EDMAC/NFSS input file might look like:
+
+--------------------------------------
+\documentclass[12pt]{article} % this starts LaTeX2e up properly, with big fonts.
+\usepackage{adobegar} % sets up LaTeX to use the Adobe Garamond font family.
+\usepackage{edmacfss} % this calls edmacfss.sty, which in turn calls edmac.doc
+
+\begin{document} % normal start of a LaTeX document
+
+\firstlinenum=1 % EDMAC macros from here on...
+\linenumincrement=1
+
+\beginnumbering
+\pstart
+First \text{paragraph}\Afootnote{This is a test.}/. End of first
+paragraph.
+\pend
+
+\pstart
+\text{Second paragraph}\Bfootnote{So is this.}/. End of second
+paragraph.
+\pend
+\endnumbering
+
+\end{document} % equally, you can say just \bye.
+
+--------------------------------------
+
+Many thanks to Wayne Sullivan for suggesting this approach to accessing
+NFSS, and for providing the initial version of edmac.sty.
+
+Dominik Wujastyk
+19 July 1994.