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-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