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		|	THE SAVETREES PACKAGE	     |
		| By Scott Pakin, scott+st@pakin.org |
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Description
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The goal of the savetrees package is to pack as much text as possible
onto each page of a LaTeX document.  Admittedly, this makes the
document far less attractive.  Nevertheless, savetrees is a simple way
to save paper when printing draft copies of a document.  It can also
be useful when trying to meet a tight page-length requirement for a
conference or journal submission.


Installation
============

Building the savetrees package is fairly straightforward:

    latex savetrees.ins             <= Extract savetrees.sty, savetrees.bst,
                                       and makethin.pl.
    latex savetrees.dtx             <= Build the documentation (savetrees.dvi).
    makeindex -s gind.ist savetrees <= Generate an index (makeindex.ind).
    latex savetrees.dtx             <= Add the index to the documentation.

Then, on Unix:

    mv makethin.pl makethin         <= Drop the unnecessary .pl extension.
    chmod +x makethin               <= Make the Perl script executable.

To install savetrees, move savetrees.sty into a directory searched by
LaTeX (e.g., .../texmf/tex/latex/misc/) and move savetrees.bst into a
directory searched by BibTeX (e.g., .../texmf/bibtex/bst/misc/).

If you have both Perl and a Kpathsea-based TeX distribution -- i.e.,
you have a "kpsewhich" command -- then you should additionally install
the makethin script somewhere in your path (e.g., /usr/local/bin).  On
a Unix system you can produce a man page using a command like the
following:

    makethin --man=/usr/local/man/man1/makethin.1


Copyright and license
=====================

Copyright (C) 2006 by Scott Pakin <scott+st@pakin.org>

This file may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of
the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c of this license
or (at your option) any later version.  The latest version of this
license is in:

    http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt

and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX
version 2006/05/20 or later.