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-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label specials</title>
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-<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/>Instructions for 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 human-friendly interface to the <code>\</code><code>special</code>; for example,
-there&#8217;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 relatively
-straightforward, despite the rather daunting <code>\</code><code>special</code> commands
-involved. (ConTeXt provides similar support, though not by way of
-packages.)
-<p/>The allowable arguments of <code>\</code><code>special</code> depend on the device driver
-you&#8217;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/>Note that <code>\</code><code>special</code> behaves rather differently in PDFTeX, since
-there is no device driver around. There <em>is</em> a concept of
-PDF specials, but in most cases <code>\</code><code>special</code> will provoke a
-warning when used in PDFTeX.
-<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>
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