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LaTeX system. While it is not as comprehensive as Lamport's book,
it should be sufficient in most cases.
- To print the document, there are several possibilities:
+ Rebuild the whole document from scratch by LaTeXing
+ lshort.tex. (If you don't have the AMS classes installed, the
+ relevant parts of the document will be left out, but it
+ will format without problem. After latexing the document twice,
+ you should use makeindex to generate a new index file.
- a) Copy one of the ps files to your printer:
-
- lshort.ps
- lshort-book.ps A4/booklet/duplex
-
- NOTE for Abt IIIB: you can print the booklet version to
- the VPP printer with
-
- vpp -dest=etzj61 lshort-book.ps
- or
- vpp -dest=etzd96 lshort-book.ps
-
- b) Print the lshort.dvi file with a dvi-driver. (You need to
- have the AMS math fonts installed your system. If you don't,
- your dvi-driver will complain.)
-
- c) Rebuild the whole document from scratch by LaTeXing
- lshort.tex. (If you don't have the AMS classes installed, the
- relevant parts of the document will be left out, but it
- will format without problem. After latexing the document twice,
- you should use makeindex to generate a new index file.
-
- (to get the adobe euro symbol right you need to install the
- ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/eurofont.exe as described in
- http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/euro/latex/europs/README.europs)
+ (to get the adobe euro symbol right you need to install the
+ ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/eurofont.exe as described in
+ http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/euro/latex/europs/README.europs)
The preformatted versions of the document are set for double sided
printing on A4 paper. If you want a single sided version, you need to
@@ -43,34 +25,9 @@
shrink the output and then use pstops to paste the resulting pages
together in the right order.
- To produce a A5 Booklet from source, I recommend the following procedure,
- on the twoside lshort2e.dvi:
-
- *) dvips -x800 -P?? -olshort.ps lshort.dvi
- (?? is the name of the printer you want to print the booklet)
-
- *) psbook lshort.ps out.ps
-
- *) pstops "4:0L(27.8cm,-1.5cm)+1L(27.8cm,13.3cm)" out.ps p1.ps
- (p1.ps now contains the front pages)
-
- *) pstops "4:2L(27.8cm,-1.5cm)+3L(27.8cm,13.3cm)" out.ps p2.ps
- (p2.ps contains the back pages)
-
- If have a doublex(shoprtbind) Printer:
-
- *) pstops "4:0L(27.8cm,-1.5cm)+1L(27.8cm,13.3cm),2L(27.8cm,-1.5cm)+3L(27.8cm,13.3cm)" out.ps lshort-book.ps
-
- If you have postscript versions of the latex Fonts you can use
- (make sure your printer has enough memmory for this)
-
- *) dvips -Pcmz -olshort.ps lshort.dvi
- *) psbook lshort.ps out.ps
- *) pstops "4:0L@0.8(22.76cm,-0.6cm)+1L@0.8(22.76cm,13.45cm),3R@0.8(-1.38cm,16.25cm)+2R@0.8(-1.38cm,30.3cm)" out.ps lshort-book.ps
-
+ there is a Makefile provided which you may want to use
+ to rebuild everything
Cheers
Tobias Oetiker tobi@oetiker.ch
-PS: If you have any comment, or just find the book helpful,
- please let me know.