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-\begin{introduction}
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-\nothtml{\csname c@secnumdepth\endcsname=-1 }
-\section{Introduction}
-
-This is a set of Frequently Asked Questions (\acro{FAQ}) for
-English-speaking users of \TeX{}.
-
-The questions answered here cover a wide range of topics, but
-typesetting issues are mostly covered from the viewpoint of a \LaTeX{}
-user. Some of the questions answered have little relevance to today's
-users; this is inevitable~--- it's easier to add information than it
-is to decide that information is no longer needed. The set of
-answered questions is therefore in a state of slow flux: new questions
-are answered, while old questions are deleted~\dots{}~but the whole
-process depends on the time available for \acro{FAQ} maintenance.
-
-\nothtml{\noindent} You may use the \acro{FAQ}
-\begin{itemize}
-\item by reading a printed document,
-\item by viewing a \acro{PDF} file, with hyperlinks to assist
- browsing: copies are available formatted so that they could be
- printed on \CTANhref{faq-a4}{A4 paper} or on % ! line break
- \CTANhref{faq-letter}{North American ``letter'' paper}, \htmlonly{or}
-\begin{typesetversion}
-\item by using the \acro{FAQ}'s web interface (base \acro{URL}:
- \URL{http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq}); this version provides simple
- search capabilities, as well as a link to Google for a more
- sophisticated search restricted to the \acro{FAQ} itself, or
-\end{typesetversion}
-\item via Scott Pakin's \CTANhref{visualFAQ}{Visual FAQ}, which shows
- \LaTeX{} constructions with links to \acro{FAQ} explanations of how
- they may be created.
-\end{itemize}
-
-\subsection{Licence of the \acro{FAQ}}
-
-The source of the \acro{FAQ}, available in the % ! line break
-\CTANhref{faq}{\acro{FAQ}'s \ctan{} directory}, and its derived
-representations (currently, the \acro{HTML} found at
-\url{http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq} and \acro{PDF} copies, also in the
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-\CTANhref{faq}{\acro{FAQ}'s \ctan{} directory}) are all placed in the
-public domain.
-
-\subsection{Finding the Files}
-\begin{typesetversion}
-Unless otherwise specified, all files mentioned in this \acro{FAQ}
-are available from a \ctan{} archive, or from a mirror of
-\ctan{}~--- see \Qref[question]{later discussion}{Q-archives}% ! space
-\narrowonly{, which gives details} of the \ctan{}
-archives\wideonly{ and}\narrowonly{, including} how to retrieve files
-from them.
-
-The reader should also note that the first directory name of the path
-name of every file on \ctan{} is omitted from what follows, for
-the simple reason that, while it's always the same
-(\path{tex-archive/}) on the main sites, mirror sites often choose
-something else.
-
-To avoid confusion, we also omit the full stop from the end of any
-sentence whose last item is a path name (such sentences are rare, and
-only occur at the end of paragraphs). Though the path names are set
-in a different font from running text, it's not easy to distinguish
-the font of a single dot!
-\end{typesetversion}
-\begin{htmlversion}
-Almost all files suggested in any answer in these \acro{FAQ}s are
-available from \Qref{\ctan{} archives}{Q-archives}, and may be
-reached via links in the file list at the end of the answer. In
-particular, documentation (when available) is linked from the
-\ctan{} Catalogue entry, which is also listed in the file list.
-
-Unless doing so is unavoidable, the answers do not mention things that
-are not on the \ctan{} archives. An obvious exception is web
-resources such as supplementary documents, etc.
-\end{htmlversion}
-
-\begin{typesetversion}
- \subsection*{Origins}
-\end{typesetversion}
-\begin{htmlversion}
- \textbf{Origins}
-\end{htmlversion}
-The \acro{FAQ} was originated by the Committee of the \acro{UK}
-\TeX{} Users' Group (\acro{UK}~\acro{TUG}), in 1994, as a development of a
-regular posting to the \emph{Usenet} newsgroup
-\Newsgroup{comp.text.tex} that was maintained for some time by Bobby
-Bodenheimer. The first \acro{UK} version was much re-arranged and
-corrected from the original, and little of Bodenheimer's work now
-remains.
-
-\htmlignore
-The following people (at least~--- there are almost certainly others
-whose names weren't correctly recorded) have contributed help or
-advice on the development of the \acro{FAQ}:
-William Adams, % spotting dead url
-Donald Arseneau, % indefatigable
-Rosemary Bailey, % lots of initial set of maths answers
-Barbara Beeton, % one of first reviewers outside cttee
-Karl Berry, % often provides comments & suggestions
-Giuseppe Bilotta,
-Charles Cameron,
-Fran\c{c}ois Charette, % update of q-xetex
-Damian Cugley,
-Martin Garrod, % two consecutive "report" in clsvpkg
-Michael Dewey,
-Michael Downes, % (RIP) on (ams)maths stuff
-Jean-Pierre Drucbert, % (RIP) corrected my interpretation of minitoc
-David Epstein, % comment on q-algorithms, suggestion of tex-sx
-Michael Ernst, % alert on confusing colloquialism
-Thomas Esser,
-Ulrike Fischer, % spotted boondoggle in q-tabcellalign
- % args like \section improvement; general typos
-Bruno Le Floch, % alert to mess in q-latex3
-Anthony Goreham,
-Norman Gray,
-Enrico Gregorio, % new definition for q-seccntfmt
-Werner Grundlingh, % xparse for *-commands
-Eitan Gurari, % (RIP) comparative html translators
-William Hammond, % lots of work on xml-related answers
-John Hammond, % corrections to q-protect
-John Harper, % patient help with q-robust ;-)
-Gernot Hassenpflug, % impetus and suggestions for q-printvar
-Troy Henderson, % metapost tutorials update
-Hartmut Henkel,
-Stephan Hennig, % text about vc in Q-RCS
-John Hobby,
-Morten H\textoslash gholm, % eagle eyes in search for problems
-Berthold Horn, % lots of stuff on fonts
-Ian Hutchinson, % comparative html translators
-Werner Icking, % (RIP) answer on tex-music
-William Ingram, % extension of transcinit
-David Jansen, % error in errmissitem example code
-Alan Jeffrey, % another founding father
-Regnor Jernsletten,
-David Kastrup, % inter alia, suggested mention of lilypond
-Oleg Katsitadze, % revision of q-eplain
-Isaac Khabaza, % kindersley book
-Ulrich Klauer, % pointed out twaddle in TeXpronounce
-Markus Kohm, % help with functionality of Koma-script
-Stefan Kottwitz % picked up text of q-wideflt
-David Kraus, % help with tocbibind (spotted embarrassing typo :-} )
-Ryszard Kubiak, % comment about q-driver
-Simon Law,
-Uwe L\"uck, % correction of typo
-Daniel Luecking, % typos
-Aditya Mahajan, % rewrite of q-context
-Sanjoy Mahajan,
-Diego Andres Alvarez Marin, % suggestion of lacheck
-Andreas Matthias, % most recently q-isitanum
-Steve Mayer, % proof reading
-Javier Mora, % bug in q-cmdstar
-Brooks Moses, % editorial suggestion
-Peter Moulder, % improvement of q-widows
-Iain Murray, % alternative solution in q-hyperdupdest
-Vilar Camara Neto, % explain breakurl pkg, suggest use of numprint
-Dick Nickalls,
-Ted Nieland,
-Hans Nordhaug,
-Pat Rau,
-Heiko Oberdiek,
-Piet van Oostrum,
-Scott Pakin, % bug reports (at least)
-Oren Patashnik,
-Manuel P\'egouri\'e-Gonnard, % improvement of q-luatex
-Steve Peter, % comprehensive review, lots of typos etc
-Sebastian Rahtz, % without whom there would be no...
-Philip Ratcliffe, % help with a bibtex oddity, editorial comment
-Chris Rowley, % founding father
-Jos\'e Carlos Santos, % assiduous reader of new versions
-Walter Schmidt,
-Hans-Peter Schr\"ocker,
-Joachim Schrod,
-Uwe Siart, % correction for manymathalph
-Maarten Sneep, % summary of c.t.t thread for outszwrng, inter alia
-Axel Sommerfeldt, % suggested rewrite of q-hyperdupdest
-Philipp Stephani, % xlation of komascript keyval stuff
-James Szinger, % who responded on c.t.t to request for answer
-Nicola Talbot, % correction of link
-Bob Tennent, % urw classico + sansmath
-Tomek Trzeciak, % suggested docmute and standalone together
-Ulrik Vieth,
-Mike Vulis, % details of micropress offerings
-Chris Walker, % revtex alert, ite suggestion (q-labelfig)
-Peter Wilson, % several, incl functionality of memoir
-Joseph Wright, % help with keyval, l3keys, etc.
-Rick Zaccone,
-Gregor Zattler % typo spotted
-and
-Reinhard Zierke.
-
-That list does \emph{not} cover the many people whose ideas were
-encountered on various mailing lists, in newsgroups, or (more
-recently!) in web forums. Many
-such people have helped, even if simply to highlight an area in which
-\acro{FAQ} work would be useful.
-\endhtmlignore
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-\end{introduction}