The Very Short Guide to LaTeX

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.

This revision corrects some minor typographical inconsistencies and
rephrases some descriptions for greater clarity.


            From the source comments:

    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.


    Production notes

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.

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

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
slightly smaller.

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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

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