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| author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2005-12-29 00:31:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2005-12-29 00:31:48 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-specials.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-specials.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..e23eac5b1c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-specials.html @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label specials</title> +</head><body> +<h3><code>\</code><code>special</code> commands</h3> +<p>TeX provides the means to express things that device drivers can +do, but about which TeX itself knows nothing. For example, TeX +itself knows nothing about how to include PostScript figures into +documents, or how to set the colour of printed text; but some device +drivers do. +<p>Such things are introduced to your document by means of <code>\</code><code>special</code> +commands; all that TeX does with these commands is to expand their +arguments and then pass the command to the DVI file. In most +cases, there are macro packages provided (often with the driver) that +provide a comprehensible interface to the <code>\</code><code>special</code>; for example, +there's little point including a figure if you leave no gap for it in +your text, and changing colour proves to be a particularly fraught +operation that requires real wizardry. LaTeX2e +has standard graphics and colour packages that make figure inclusion, +rotation and scaling, and colour typesetting via <code>\</code><code>special</code>s all easy. +<p>The allowable arguments of <code>\</code><code>special</code> depend on the device driver +you're using. Apart from the examples above, there are <code>\</code><code>special</code> +commands in the emTeX drivers (e.g., <i>dvihplj</i>, <i>dviscr</i>, +<em>etc</em>.) that will draw lines at arbitrary orientations, and +commands in <i>dvitoln03</i> that permit the page to be set in +landscape orientation. +<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=specials">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=specials</a> +</body> |