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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/edmac/ed-nfss.txt b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/edmac/ed-nfss.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..a93835098c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/edmac/ed-nfss.txt @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +File: ed-nfss.txt 19/7/94. This is a plain ascii file. + + Please note that the following method of using EDMAC within + LaTeX2e is still experimental. Initial trials with real-life + book preparation, however, seem to work well. + +The New Font Selection Scheme (NFSS) is the normal font-handling scheme +used by LaTeX from version 2e (June 1994). It is described in the book +"The LaTeX Companion" by Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin +(Addison-Wesley, 1993), chapter 7. + +To use this font scheme with EDMAC, you first need to install LaTeX2e. +After doing this, you should have a new format file called something +like "latex.fmt", which contains a dump of the LaTeX macros. To use +this LaTeX2e format you might type a command like "tex &latex +<filename>" where <filename> is the name of the TeX input file you wish +to run through LaTeX2e. + +To use EDMAC and NFSS together, you will do exactly the same as running +a normal LaTeX2e job, with the addition that you use the macro package +"edmacfss" (i.e., edmacfss.sty) and apart from the first couple of lines +of your EDMAC file, you treat your document as a standard EDMAC file. +That is to say, only EDMAC and Plain TeX commands will work, and not +LaTeX2e macros (except those required for NFSS). + +[In fact, this is a white lie: you may have some limited luck using a +few other LaTeX2e commands, but this is rather hit-and-miss. In +particular, EDMAC uses its own output routine, not LaTeX2e's, so lots +and lots of stuff specific to the LaTeX output routine (like float +placement) won't get executed.] + +Here is a sample of what an EDMAC/NFSS input file might look like: + +-------------------------------------- +\documentclass[12pt]{article} % this starts LaTeX2e up properly, with big fonts. +\usepackage{adobegar} % sets up LaTeX to use the Adobe Garamond font family. +\usepackage{edmacfss} % this calls edmacfss.sty, which in turn calls edmac.doc + +\begin{document} % normal start of a LaTeX document + +\firstlinenum=1 % EDMAC macros from here on... +\linenumincrement=1 + +\beginnumbering +\pstart +First \text{paragraph}\Afootnote{This is a test.}/. End of first +paragraph. +\pend + +\pstart +\text{Second paragraph}\Bfootnote{So is this.}/. End of second +paragraph. +\pend +\endnumbering + +\end{document} % equally, you can say just \bye. + +-------------------------------------- + +Many thanks to Wayne Sullivan for suggesting this approach to accessing +NFSS, and for providing the initial version of edmac.sty. + +Dominik Wujastyk +19 July 1994. |