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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/latex-veryshortguide/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/latex-veryshortguide/README index a71ba32cd53..7290085d089 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/latex-veryshortguide/README +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/latex-veryshortguide/README @@ -1,39 +1,70 @@ -The Very Short Guide to LaTeX -http://latex.silmaril.ie/veryshortguide/ + The Very Short Guide to LaTeX -This is the 24 July 2009 revision of the Guide. It is designed for +This is the 1 October 2009 revision of the Guide. It is designed for printing on A4 paper, double-sided, and folding once to A5. -If you have been maintaining a mirror or other copy of this document, -please update it with this version delete the previous files. +This revision corrects some minor typographical inconsistencies and +rephrases some descriptions for greater clarity. -LICENSE + From the source comments: -This is free documentation, issued under the LaTeX Rroject Public -License. For details see -http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.lppl.html + This is the Very Short Guide to LaTeX, a 4pp folder designed as an + aide-mémoire for people who have just done a course in LaTeX and + need something by them on their desk the next day to refresh their + memories. It is /not/ intended as a substitute for full documentation. -FILES -Source code + Production notes -veryshortguide.tex +An earlier (Jan 2008) version was typeset on two A4 landscape pages +ready to print, but this restricted the ways people wanted to print it, +so this version is set as four normal A5 pages, leaving the imposition +up to your printer driver. -Output +Adobe Acrobat 9, for example, can print the PDF two-sided, two-up, +landscape on A4 using the "Booklet Printing" option, and a ready-imposed +PDF generated this way is included below. A similar effect can be +achieved by preprocessing the PS output with the command -veryshortguide.pdf -veryshortguide-imposed.pdf -veryshortguide.dvi -veryshortguide.ps +pstops -pa4 -b "4:-3L(30cm,0)+0L(30cm,14.85cm),1L(30cm,0)+-2L(30cm,14.85cm)" \ + veryshortguide.ps | ps2pdf - veryshortguide-imposed.pdf + -Images +The weird value of 30cm appears to be due to a bug in |pstops| (and in +|psbook|: it ought to have been possible to use |psbook| and |psnup| for +this, but that method does not allow for offsetting). -menno-a.eps -menno-a.png +The page margins are set to 12mm, because many desktop inkjet printers +cannot print the bottom 12mm of a sheet; it was felt best to equalise +this all round, at the small expense of making the printable area +slightly smaller. -Peter Flynn +Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 + +If you have been maintaining a mirror or other copy of this document, +please update it with this version and delete the previous files. + + + License -2009-07-22 20:12:00 +This is free documentation, issued under the LaTeX Project Public +License <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.lppl.html>. + + + Files + +Source code +veryshortguide.tex 22K LaTeX source +Output +veryshortguide.pdf 480K PDF output +veryshortguide-imposed.pdf 312K PDF output +veryshortguide.dvi 30K DVI output +veryshortguide.ps 1.2M PS output +Images +menno-a.eps 444K Map (EPS) +menno-a.jpg 30K Map (JPG) + +Peter Flynn |