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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2019-10-01 16:43:50 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2019-10-01 16:43:50 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-support.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-support.tex deleted file mode 100644 index 1a08d1865cf..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-support.tex +++ /dev/null @@ -1,188 +0,0 @@ -% $Id: faq-support.tex,v 1.9 2014/01/28 18:17:36 rf10 Exp rf10 $ - -\section{Support Packages for \TeX{}} - -\Question[Q-xfigetc]{\AllTeX{}-friendly drawing packages} -\AliasQuestion{Q-xfig} -\AliasQuestion{Q-figetc} - -\ProgName{(X)Fig} is a menu driven tool that allows you to -draw objects on the screen of an \acro{X} workstation; \ProgName{transfig} -is a set of tools which translate the code \ProgName{fig}. The list -of export formats is very long, and includes \MF{} and \MP{}, -Encapsulated \PS{} and \acro{PDF}, as well as combinations that wrap -a graphics format in a \LaTeX{} import file, which may include -\LaTeX{} commands to place text (compiled by \LaTeX{} itself) as -labels, etc., in the figures. - -There's no explicit port of \ProgName{xfig} to windows (although it is -believed to work under \ProgName{cygwin} with its X-windows system). -However, the program % ! line break -\href{http://tams-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/applets/jfig/}{\ProgName{jfig}} -is thought by many to be an acceptable substitute, written in Java. - -\ProgName{Asymptote} is a widely-praised development of the \MP{} -language, which can draw 2D or 3D diagrams, and can also label -diagrams with \LaTeX{} text; copious documentation is available via -\href{http://asymptote.sourceforge.net}{\ProgName{asymptote}'s web site}. -\begin{ctanrefs} -\item[asymptote]\CTANref{asymptote} -\item[xfig]\CTANref{xfig} -\item[transfig]\CTANref{transfig} -\end{ctanrefs} -\LastEdit{2011-05-02} - -\Question[Q-texcad]{\TeX{}\acro{CAD}, a drawing package for \LaTeX{}} - -\TeX{}\acro{CAD} is a program for the \acro{PC} which enables the user to draw diagrams -on screen using a mouse or arrow keys, with an on-screen menu of available -picture-elements. Its output is code for the \LaTeX{} -\environment{picture} environment. -Optionally, it can be set to include lines at all angles using -the em\TeX{} driver-family -\htmlignore -(\Qref*{\csx{special}s}{Q-specials}). -\endhtmlignore -\begin{htmlversion} -\Qref{\csx{special}s}{Q-specials}. -\end{htmlversion} -\TeX{}\acro{CAD} is part of the em\TeX{} distribution. - -A Unix port of the program (\ProgName{xtexcad}) has been made. -\begin{ctanrefs} -\item[emtex]\CTANref{emtex} -\item[xtexcad]\CTANref{xtexcad} -\end{ctanrefs} - -\Question[Q-spell]{Spelling checkers for work with \TeX{}} - -`Traditional' approaches to the problem (of checking your spelling) were -designed to work with a plain text file; in our case, we have an \alltex{} -source. For the user, this is a simple-to-understand way to do the -job; but for the spell-checker programmer, it requires heuristic (and -hence fallible) analysis of \alltex{} macros and so on. The -alternative, of viewing the text \emph{after} \alltex{} has processed -the results, is covered below. - -The user of an \Qref*{shell/editor}{Q-editors} will usually find it -embeds a spelling checker. For command-line use, there are several -choices, depending on the system you're using. - -For Unix, \ProgName{ispell} was long the program of choice; it is well -integrated with \ProgName{emacs}, and deals with some \TeX{} syntax. -However, it has more-or-less been replaced everywhere, by -\ProgName{aspell}, which was designed as a successor, and certainly -performs better on most metrics; there remains some question as to its -performance with \AllTeX{} sources. The most recent offering (which -is widely used in other open-source software projects) is -\begin{hyperversion} - \href{http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/}{\ProgName{Hunspell}}. -\end{hyperversion} -\begin{flatversion} - Hunspell~(see \URL{http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/}). -\end{flatversion} -\ProgName{Hunspell} is available for other architectures, too; a web -search shows versions available for Windows, at least. - -For the Macintosh, \ProgName{Excalibur} has long been used; its -distribution comes with dictionaries for several languages. -\ProgName{Hunspell} (see above) is actually part of OS X from version 10.6. - -The \acro{VMS} Pascal program \ProgName{spell} makes special cases of -some important features of \LaTeX{} syntax. - -For \MSDOS{}, there are several programs. \ProgName{Amspell} can be -called from within an editor, and \ProgName{jspell} is an extended -version of \ProgName{ispell}. - -An alternative approach takes \alltex{} output, and checks that. A -straightforward approach is to produce \acro{PDF} output, and process -it with \ProgName{pdftotext}, using any plain text checker on the -result (the checkers listed above all work in this r\^ole). For this -to work reasonably well, the user should disable hyphenation before -making the \acro{PDF} output. - -The (experimental) \luatex{}/\latex{} package \Package{spelling} goes -one step further: it uses \ProgName{lua} code to extract words -\emph{while typesetting is going on}, but before hyphenation is -applied. Each word is looked up in a list of known bad spellings, and -the word highlighted if it appears there. In parallel, a text file is -created, which can be processed by a `normal' spelling checker to -produce a revised ``bad spelling'' list. (The package documentation -shows the end result; it includes words such as `spellling', which are -duly highlighted.) -\begin{ctanrefs} -\item[4spell]\CTANref{4spell} -\item[amspell]\CTANref{amspell} -\item[aspell]Browse \CTANref{aspell}~--- choose just those language - dictionaries (under subdirectory \File{dict/}) that you need. -\item[excalibur]\CTANref{Excalibur} -\item[ispell]\CTANref{ispell} -\item[jspell]\CTANref{jspell} -\item[spelling.sty]\CTANref{spelling} -\item[\nothtml{\bgroup\rmfamily}\acro{VMS}\nothtml{\egroup} spell]% - \CTANref{vmspell} -\item[winedt]\CTANref{winedt} -\end{ctanrefs} -\LastEdit{2013-10-02} - -\Question[Q-wordcount]{How many words have you written?} - -One often has to submit a document (e.g., a paper or a dissertation) -under some sort of constraint about its size. Sensible people set a -constraint in terms of numbers of pages, but there are some that -persist in limiting the numbers of words you type. - -A simple solution to the requirement can be achieved following a -simple observation: the powers that be are unlikely to count all the -words of a document submitted to them. Therefore, a statistical -method can be employed: find how many words there are on a full page; -find how many full pages there are in the document (allowing for -displays of various sorts, this number will probably not be an -integer); multiply the two. However, if the document to be submitted -is to determine the success of the rest of one's life, it takes a -brave person to thumb their nose at authority quite so -comprehensively\dots{} - -The simplest method is to strip out the \AllTeX{} markup, and to count -what's left. On a Unix-like system, this may be done using -\ProgName{detex} and the built-in \ProgName{wc}: -\begin{quote} -\begin{verbatim} -detex <filename> | wc -w -\end{verbatim} -\end{quote} -The technique is beguilingly simple, but it's not terribly accurate - -The \ProgName{latexcount} script does the same sort of job, in one -``step''; being a \ProgName{perl} script, it is in principle rather -easily configured (see documentation inside the script). -Several \Qref*{editors and shells}{Q-editors} offer something similar. - -\ProgName{TeXcount} goes a long way with heuristics for counting, -starting from a \LaTeX{} file; the documentation is comprehensive, and -you may try the script on-line via the % ! line break -\begin{hyperversion} - \href{http://folk.uio.no/einarro/Comp/texwordcount.html}{package home page}. -\end{hyperversion} -\begin{flatversion} - package home page~(see - \URL{http://folk.uio.no/einarro/Comp/texwordcount.html}). -\end{flatversion} - -However, even quite sophisticated stripping of \AllTeX{} markup can -never be entirely reliable: markup itself may contribute typeset -words, or even consume words that appear in the text. - -The \Package{wordcount} package -contains a Bourne shell (i.e., typically Unix) script for running a -\LaTeX{} file with a special piece of supporting \TeX{} code, and then -counting word indications in the log file. This is probably as -accurate automatic counting as you can get, if it works for you. -\begin{ctanrefs} -\item[detex]\CTANref{detex} -\item[latexcount.pl]\CTANref{latexcount} -\item[TeXcount]\CTANref{texcount} -\item[wordcount]\CTANref{wordcount} -\end{ctanrefs} - |