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-% $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}
-