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+<html><head>
+<title>TeX Frequently Asked Questions</title>
+</head><body>
+<h1 align="center">Welcome to the UK List of<br>
+ TeX Frequently Asked Questions</h1>
<h2>Introduction</h2>
+
+
+
<p/>This is a set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for
-English-speaking users of TeX. The questions answered here cover a
-wide range of topics, but the actual typesetting issues are mostly
+English-speaking users of TeX. The questions answered here cover
+a wide range of topics, but the actual typesetting issues are mostly
covered from the viewpoint of a LaTeX user.
<p/>You may use the FAQ
<ul>
-<li> by reading a printed document,
+<li> by reading a printed document,
<li> by viewing a PDF file, with hyperlinks to assist
browsing: copies are available formatted for printing on
- <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/uk-tex-faq/newfaq.pdf">A4 paper</a> or on
- <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/uk-tex-faq/letterfaq.pdf">North American &ldquo;letter&rdquo; paper</a>, or
+ <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/help/uk-tex-faq/newfaq.pdf">A4 paper</a> or on
+ <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/help/uk-tex-faq/letterfaq.pdf">North American &ldquo;letter&rdquo; paper</a>, or
<li> by using the FAQ&rsquo;s web interface (base URL:
- <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a>); this version provides simple search
- capabilities, as well as a link to Google for a more sophisticated
- search restricted to the FAQ itself, or
-<li> via Scott Pakin&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/visualFAQ/visualFAQ.pdf">Visual FAQ</a>.
+ <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a>); this version provides simple
+ search capabilities, as well as a link to Google for a more
+ sophisticated search restricted to the FAQ itself, or
+<li> via Scott Pakin&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/info/visualFAQ/visualFAQ.pdf">Visual FAQ</a>.
</ul>
<p/>
-<b>Caveat: Acquiring files</b>
-<p/>Most answers in this FAQ provide links for downloading
-software; a large proportion of these links direct you to entire
-directories on the CTAN archives. Unfortunately, some browsers
-issue a sequence of commands that causes CTAN servers to deny
-the existence of compressed archive files of the directory, that the
-server would be happy to create &ldquo;on the fly&rdquo;. The FAQ
-therefore offers three possible links for downloading directories
-(that aren&rsquo;t already designated &ldquo;browse only&rdquo;): the links give you
-<code>.zip</code> and <code>.tar.gz</code> archives, and a link for browsing
-the directory.
-<p/>Fortunately, CTAN is switching to statically-generated
-directory archive files; many directories mentioned in this FAQ
-will also exist as <code>.zip</code> files on the archives, and won&rsquo;t fall
-foul of the browser problem. Of course, if the <code>.zip</code> file
-does not exist, and the browser is playing up, you will need to use
-the &ldquo;browse&rdquo; link.
-<p/>
+<p/>Unless otherwise specified, all files mentioned in this FAQ
+are available from a CTAN archive, or from a mirror of
+CTAN &mdash; see <a href="FAQ-archives.html">later discussion</a>
+ of the CTAN
+archives and how to retrieve files
+from them. If you don&rsquo;t have access to the internet, the
+<a href="FAQ-CD.html">TeX Live distribution</a> offers off-line snapshots of the
+archives.
+<p/>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&rsquo;s always the same
+(<i>tex-archive/</i>) on the main sites, mirror sites often choose
+something else.
+<p/>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&rsquo;s not easy
+to distinguish the font of a single dot!
<p/><b>Origins</b>
-<p/>The FAQ was originated by the Committee of the UK TeX
-Users&rsquo; Group (UK TUG) as a development of a regular
-posting to the <em>Usenet</em> newsgroup <i>comp.text.tex</i> that
-was maintained for some time by Bobby Bodenheimer. The first
-UK version was much re-arranged and corrected from the
-original, and little of Bodenheimer&rsquo;s work now remains.
+<p/>The FAQ was originated by the Committee of the UK
+TeX Users&rsquo; Group (UK TUG) as a development of a
+regular posting to the <em>Usenet</em> newsgroup
+<i>comp.text.tex</i> that was maintained for some time by Bobby
+Bodenheimer. The first UK version was much re-arranged and
+corrected from the original, and little of Bodenheimer&rsquo;s work now
+remains.
<p/>The following people (at least &mdash; there are almost certainly others
whose names weren&rsquo;t correctly recorded) have contributed help or
-advice on the development of the FAQ:
-Donald Arseneau,
+advice on the development of the FAQ: Donald Arseneau,
Rosemary Bailey,
Barbara Beeton,
-Karl Berry,
+Karl Berry,
Giuseppe Bilotta,
Charles Cameron,
+Fran&ccedil;ois Charette,
Damian Cugley,
Michael Dewey,
Michael Downes,
@@ -81,6 +90,7 @@ Oleg Katsitadze,
Isaac Khabaza,
Ulrich Klauer,
Markus Kohm,
+Stefan Kottwitz
David Kraus,
Ryszard Kubiak,
Simon Law,
@@ -91,7 +101,7 @@ Andreas Matthias,
Brooks Moses,
Iain Murray,
Vilar Camara Neto,
-Dick Nickalls,
+Dick Nickalls,
Ted Nieland,
Hans Nordhaug,
Pat Rau,
@@ -99,6 +109,7 @@ Heiko Oberdiek,
Piet van Oostrum,
Scott Pakin,
Oren Patashnik,
+Manuel P&eacute;gouri&eacute;-Gonnard,
Steve Peter,
Sebastian Rahtz,
Philip Ratcliffe,
@@ -109,19 +120,21 @@ Hans-Peter Schr&ouml;cker,
Joachim Schrod,
Maarten Sneep,
Axel Sommerfeldt,
+Philipp Stephani,
James Szinger,
Ulrik Vieth,
Mike Vulis,
Chris Walker,
Peter Wilson,
+Joseph Wright,
Rick Zaccone and
Reinhard Zierke.
-<p/>
-<p/><h3>The Background</h3><ul>
+<h3>The Background</h3><ul>
<li><a href="FAQ-whatTeX.html">What is TeX?</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-TeXpronounce.html">How should I pronounce &ldquo;TeX&rdquo;?</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-MF.html">What is Metafont?</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-MP.html">What is MetaPost?</a>
+<li><a href="FAQ-texthings.html">Things with &ldquo;TeX&rdquo; in the name</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-triptrap.html">How can I be sure it&rsquo;s really TeX?</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-y2k.html">Are TeX and friends Y2K compliant?</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-etex.html">What is e-TeX?</a>
@@ -170,6 +183,7 @@ Reinhard Zierke.
<li><a href="FAQ-pk.html">What are PK files?</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-tfm.html">What are TFM files?</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-virtualfonts.html">Virtual fonts</a>
+<li><a href="FAQ-whatmacros.html">What are (TeX) macros</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-specials.html"><code>\</code><code>special</code> commands</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-hyphen.html">How does hyphenation work in TeX?</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-clsvpkg.html">What are LaTeX classes and packages?</a>
@@ -177,14 +191,14 @@ Reinhard Zierke.
<li><a href="FAQ-whatenc.html">What are encodings?</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-ECfonts.html">What are the EC fonts?</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-tds.html">What is the TDS?</a>
-<li><a href="FAQ-eps.html">What is &ldquo;Encapsulated PostScript&rdquo; (&ldquo;EPS&rdquo;)</a>
+<li><a href="FAQ-eps.html">What is &ldquo;Encapsulated PostScript&rdquo; (&ldquo;EPS&rdquo;)?</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-adobetypen.html">Adobe font formats</a>
-<li><a href="FAQ-resolns.html">What are &ldquo;resolutions&rdquo;</a>
-<li><a href="FAQ-fontname.html">What is the &ldquo;Berry naming scheme&rdquo;</a>
+<li><a href="FAQ-resolns.html">What are &ldquo;resolutions&rdquo;?</a>
+<li><a href="FAQ-fontname.html">What is the &ldquo;Berry naming scheme&rdquo;?</a>
</ul><h3>Acquiring the Software</h3><ul>
<li><a href="FAQ-archives.html">Repositories of TeX material</a>
-<li><a href="FAQ-tds-zip.html">Prebuilt installation files on the archive</a>
-<li><a href="FAQ-nonfree.html">What&rsquo;s the CTAN <code>nonfree</code> tree?</a>
+<li><a href="FAQ-tds-zip.html">Ready-built installation files on the archive</a>
+<li><a href="FAQ-nonfree.html">What is the CTAN <code>nonfree</code> tree?</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-uploads.html">Contributing a file to the archives</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-findfiles.html">Finding (La)TeX files</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-findfont.html">Finding new fonts</a>
@@ -200,7 +214,7 @@ Reinhard Zierke.
<li><a href="FAQ-previewers.html">DVI previewers</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-dvi-bmp.html">Generating bitmaps from DVI</a>
</ul><h3>Support Packages for TeX</h3><ul>
-<li><a href="FAQ-fig.html">Fig, a (La)TeX-friendly drawing package</a>
+<li><a href="FAQ-figetc.html">(La)TeX-friendly drawing packages</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-texcad.html">TeXCAD, a drawing package for LaTeX</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-spell.html">Spelling checkers for work with TeX</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-wordcount.html">How many words have you written?</a>
@@ -226,7 +240,7 @@ Reinhard Zierke.
<li><a href="FAQ-inst-tidy.html">Tidying up after installation</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-inst-scut.html">Shortcuts to installing files</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-inst-miktexstar.html">Installation using MiKTeX package manager</a>
-<li><a href="FAQ-inst-tds-zip.html">Installing using preformatted ZIP files</a>
+<li><a href="FAQ-inst-tds-zip.html">Installing using ready-built ZIP files</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-tempinst.html">&ldquo;Temporary&rdquo; installation of (La)TeX files</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-privinst.html">&ldquo;Private&rdquo; installations of files</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-instfont.html">Installing a new font</a>
@@ -269,6 +283,7 @@ Reinhard Zierke.
<li><a href="FAQ-dvipsgraphics.html">Imported graphics in <i>dvips</i></a>
<li><a href="FAQ-pdftexgraphics.html">Imported graphics in PDFLaTeX</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-dvipdfmgraphics.html">Imported graphics in <i>dvipdfm</i></a>
+<li><a href="FAQ-grffilenames.html">&ldquo;Modern&rdquo; graphics file names</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-graphicspath.html">Importing graphics from &ldquo;somewhere else&rdquo;</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-graph-pspdf.html">Portable imported graphics</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-repeatgrf.html">Repeated graphics in a document</a>
@@ -351,7 +366,6 @@ Reinhard Zierke.
<li><a href="FAQ-nopagebrk.html">Preventing page breaks between lines</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-parallel.html">Parallel setting of text</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-epigraph.html">Typesetting epigraphs</a>
-<li><a href="FAQ-outszwrng.html">(La)TeX PDF output prints at wrong size</a>
</ul><h4>Spacing of characters and lines</h4><ul>
<li><a href="FAQ-linespace.html">Double-spaced documents in LaTeX</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-letterspace.html">Changing the space between letters</a>
@@ -415,6 +429,7 @@ Reinhard Zierke.
</ul><h4>Floating tables, figures, etc.</h4><ul>
<li><a href="FAQ-floatpages.html">Floats on their own on float pages</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-vertspacefloat.html">Extra vertical space in floats</a>
+<li><a href="FAQ-wideflt.html">Centring a very wide figure or table</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-2colfloat.html">Placing two-column floats at bottom of page</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-mcfloat.html">Floats in multicolumn setting</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-dpfloat.html">Facing floats on 2-page spread</a>
@@ -452,6 +467,7 @@ Reinhard Zierke.
<li><a href="FAQ-bold-extras.html">How to do bold-tt or bold-sc</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-varwidth.html">Automatic sizing of <code>minipage</code></a>
</ul><h3>Symbols, etc.</h3><ul>
+<li><a href="FAQ-usesymb.html">Using symbols</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-numbersets.html">Symbols for the number sets</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-scriptfonts.html">Better script fonts for maths</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-boldgreek.html">Setting bold Greek letters in LaTeX</a>
@@ -460,8 +476,10 @@ Reinhard Zierke.
<li><a href="FAQ-atsign.html">How to type an &lsquo;@&rsquo; sign?</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-euro.html">Typesetting the Euro sign</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-tradesyms.html">How to get copyright, trademark, etc.</a>
+<li><a href="FAQ-osf.html">Using &ldquo;old-style&rdquo; figures</a>
</ul><h3>Macro programming</h3><ul>
</ul><h4>&ldquo;Generic&rdquo; macros and techniques</h4><ul>
+<li><a href="FAQ-linmacnames.html">Non-letters in macro names</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-findwidth.html">Finding the width of a letter, word, or phrase</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-patch.html">Patching existing commands</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-compjobnam.html">Comparing the &ldquo;job name&rdquo;</a>
@@ -469,6 +487,7 @@ Reinhard Zierke.
<li><a href="FAQ-hash.html">Defining macros within macros</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-spinmacro.html">Spaces in macros</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-moren9.html">How to break the 9-argument limit</a>
+<li><a href="FAQ-keyval.html">Key-value input for macros and package options</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-activechars.html">Defining characters as macros</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-actinarg.html">Active characters in command arguments</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-csname.html">Defining a macro from an argument</a>
@@ -527,6 +546,7 @@ Reinhard Zierke.
<li><a href="FAQ-breaklinks.html">Link text doesn&rsquo;t break at end line</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-wrongpn.html">Page number is wrong at start of page</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-matchbrak.html">My brackets don&rsquo;t match</a>
+<li><a href="FAQ-pdf-fig-chars.html">Characters disappear from figures in PDFTeX</a>
</ul><h4>Common misunderstandings</h4><ul>
<li><a href="FAQ-include.html">What&rsquo;s going on in my <code>\</code><code>include</code> commands?</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-paraparam.html">Why does it ignore paragraph parameters?</a>
@@ -581,6 +601,7 @@ Reinhard Zierke.
<li><a href="FAQ-errmissitem.html">Perhaps a missing <code>\</code><code>item</code>?</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-errparnum.html">Illegal parameter number in definition</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-fllost.html">Float(s) lost</a>
+<li><a href="FAQ-texorpdf.html">Token not allowed in PDFDocEncoded string</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-optionclash.html">Option clash for package</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-checksum.html">Checksum mismatch in font</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-entercompmode.html">Entering compatibility mode</a>
@@ -589,11 +610,11 @@ Reinhard Zierke.
<li><a href="FAQ-mathml.html">Future WWW technologies and (La)TeX</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-textrace.html">Making outline fonts from Metafont</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-WYGexpts.html">The TeX document preparation environment</a>
-<li><a href="FAQ-ant.html">The ANT typesetting system</a>
-<li><a href="FAQ-extex.html">The ExTeX project</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-omegaleph.html">Omega and Aleph</a>
-<li><a href="FAQ-luatex.html">PDFTeX becomes LuaTeX</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-xetex.html">The XeTeX project</a>
+<li><a href="FAQ-luatex.html">PDFTeX and LuaTeX</a>
+<li><a href="FAQ-ant.html">The ANT typesetting system</a>
+<li><a href="FAQ-extex.html">The ExTeX project</a>
<li><a href="FAQ-biblatex.html">Replacing the BibTeX&ndash;LaTeX mechanism</a>
</ul><h3>You&rsquo;re still stuck?</h3><ul>
<li><a href="FAQ-noans.html">You don&rsquo;t understand the answer</a>
@@ -608,5 +629,6 @@ Reinhard Zierke.
"<a href="FAQ-noans.html">Improving the FAQ</a>" or
"<a href="FAQ-newans.html">Extending the FAQ</a>".
<p>
- This is FAQ version 3.18, last modified on 2008-06-21.
+ This is FAQ version 3.19, last modified on 2009-06-10.
</address>
+</body></html>