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@@ -1,15 +1,17 @@
The Very Short Guide to LaTeX
- This is the 12 January 2012 revision of the Guide. It is designed for
+ This is the 22 January 2013 revision of the Guide. It is designed for
printing on A4 paper, double-sided, and folding once to A5.
This revision corrects some minor typographical inconsistencies and
- rephrases some descriptions for greater clarity.
+ rephrases some descriptions for greater clarity. The preformatted
+ version uses commercial typefaces: if you use CM or something else you
+ may have to rearrange the text a little, as space is very tight.
From the source comments:
This is the Very Short Guide to LaTeX, a 4pp folder designed as an
- aide-memoire for people who have just done a course in LaTeX and
+ 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.
@@ -20,14 +22,18 @@ Production notes
so this version is set as four normal A5 pages, leaving the imposition
up to your printer driver.
- Adobe Acrobat, for example, can print the PDF two-sided, two-up,
+ 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 better result
- can be achieved by preprocessing the PS output with the command
-pstops -pa4 -b "4:-3L(21cm,0)+0L(21cm,14.85cm),1L(21cm,0)+-2L(21cm,14.85cm)" \
+ ready-imposed PDF generated this way is included below. A similar
+ effect can be achieved by preprocessing the PS output with the command
+pstops -pa4 -b "4:-3L(30cm,0)+0L(30cm,14.85cm),1L(30cm,0)+-2L(30cm,14.85cm)" \
veryshortguide.ps | ps2pdf - veryshortguide-imposed.pdf
+ 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).
+
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
@@ -46,15 +52,13 @@ License
Files
Source code
- [2]veryshortguide.tex 22K LaTeX source
+ [2]veryshortguide.tex 23K LaTeX source
Output
- [3]veryshortguide.pdf 646K PDF output
- [4]veryshortguide-imposed.pdf 154K PDF output
- [5]veryshortguide.dvi 30K DVI output
- [6]veryshortguide.ps 1.2M PS output
+ [3]veryshortguide.pdf 852K PDF output
+ [4]veryshortguide-imposed.pdf 178K PDF output
Images
- [7]menno-a.eps 444K Map (EPS)
- [8]menno-a.jpg 30K Map (JPG)
+ [5]menno-a.eps 444K Map (EPS)
+ [6]menno-a.jpg 30K Map (JPG)
Peter Flynn
@@ -62,10 +66,8 @@ Files
References
1. http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.lppl.html
- 2. veryshortguide.tex
- 3. veryshortguide.pdf
- 4. veryshortguide-imposed.pdf
- 5. veryshortguide.dvi
- 6. veryshortguide.ps
- 7. menno-a.eps
- 8. menno-a.jpg
+ 2. file://localhost/home/peter/texmf/dev/veryshortguide/veryshortguide.tex
+ 3. file://localhost/home/peter/texmf/dev/veryshortguide/veryshortguide.pdf
+ 4. file://localhost/home/peter/texmf/dev/veryshortguide/veryshortguide-imposed.pdf
+ 5. file://localhost/home/peter/texmf/dev/veryshortguide/menno-a.eps
+ 6. file://localhost/home/peter/texmf/dev/veryshortguide/menno-a.jpg