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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-tutbitslatex.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-tutbitslatex.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..eacc105e158 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-tutbitslatex.html @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label tutbitslatex</title> +</head><body> +<h3>Specialised (La)TeX tutorials</h3> +<p/>The AMS publishes a “Short Math Guide for LaTeX”, which is +available (in several formats) via +<a href="http://www.ams.org/tex/short-math-guide.html">http://www.ams.org/tex/short-math-guide.html</a> +<p/>Herbert Voss is developing a parallel document, that is also very +useful; it’s part of his “<a href="FAQ-doc-dirs.html">tips and tricks</a>” and +a copy is maintained on CTAN. + +<p/>Two documents written more than ten years apart about font usage in +TeX are worth reading: +<a href="href=’http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb14-2/tb39rahtz-nfss.pdf">Essential NFSS</a> +by Sebastian Rahtz, and +<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2006-1/schmidt/schmidt.pdf">Font selection in LaTeX</a>, +cast in the form of an FAQ, by Walter Schmidt. A general +compendium of font information (including the two above) may be found +on the <a href="http://www.tug.org/fonts/">TUG web site</a>. +<p/>Peter Smith’s + + + “<a href="http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/teaching_staff/Smith/LaTeX/">LaTeX for Logicians</a>” +covers a rather smaller subject area, but is similarly comprehensive +(mostly by links to documents on relevant topics, rather than as a +monolithic document). +<p/>Keith Reckdahl’s “Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX2e” is an +excellent introduction to graphics use. It’s available on +CTAN, but the sources aren’t available (promised “some time +soon”). +<p/>Kjell Magne Fauske offers a set of examples of the use of the drawing +packages +<a href="FAQ-drawing.html">PGF and TikZ</a>; the +<a href="http://www.fauskes.net/pgftikzexamples/">examples catalogue</a> +includes examples (with output) from the package documentation as well +as code written by the author himself. +<p/>Vincent Zoonekynd provides a set of excellent (and graphic) tutorials +on the programming of +<a href="http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_title/0.html">title page styles</a>, +<a href="http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html">chapter heading styles</a> +and +<a href="http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_section/0.html">section heading styles</a>. +In each file, there is a selection of graphics representing an output +style, and for each style, the code that produces it is shown. +<p/>An invaluable step-by-step setup guide for establishing a “work +flow” through your (La)TeX system, so that output appears at the +correct size and position on standard-sized paper, and that the print +quality is satisfactory, is Mike Shell’s <i>testflow</i>. The +tutorial consists of a large plain text document, and there is a +supporting LaTeX file together with correct output, both in PostScript and +PDF, for each of A4 and “letter” paper sizes. The +complete kit is available on CTAN (distributed with the +author’s macros for papers submitted for IEEE publications). +The issues are also covered in a later +<a href="FAQ-dvips-pdf.html">FAQ answer</a>. +<p/>Documentation of Japanese TeX use appears at least twice on the web: +Haruhiko Okumura’s page on + +<a href="http://oku.edu.mie-u.ac.jp/~okumura/texfaq/japanese/">typesetting Japanese with Omega</a> +(the parent page is in Japanese, so out of the scope of this +FAQ). +<p/>One “Tim” documents pTeX (a TeX system widely used in Japan) +in his + + + “<a href="http://www.users.waitrose.com/~nihilist/English_Notes_on_pTex.pdf">English notes on pTeX</a>”. +<p/>Some university departments make their local documentation available +on the web. Most straightforwardly, there’s the simple translation of +existing documentation into HTML, for example the INFO +documentation of the (La)TeX installation, of which a sample is the +LaTeX documentation available at +<a href="http://www.tac.dk/cgi-bin/info2www?(latex)">http://www.tac.dk/cgi-bin/info2www?(latex)</a> +<p/>More ambitiously, some university departments have enthusiastic +documenters who +make public record of their (La)TeX support. For example, Tim Love +(of Cambridge University Engineering Department) maintains his +deparment’s pages at +<a href="http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/">http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/</a> + + + + + +<dl> +<dt><tt><i>Graphics in LaTeX2e</i></tt><dd>the + document is available in PostScript and PDF formats as + <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/epslatex/english/epslatex.ps">info/epslatex/english/epslatex.ps</a> and <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/epslatex/english/epslatex.pdf">info/epslatex/english/epslatex.pdf</a> respectively +<dt><tt><i>testflow</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/testflow/">macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/testflow/</a> +<dt><tt><i>Herbert Voss’s Maths tutorial</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/math/voss/mathmode/Mathmode.pdf">info/math/voss/mathmode/Mathmode.pdf</a> +</dl> +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=tutbitslatex">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=tutbitslatex</a> +</body> |