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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label whereFAQ</title>
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<h3>Where to find FAQs</h3>
<p/>Bobby Bodenheimer&#8217;s article, from which this FAQ was developed, used
to be posted (nominally monthly) to newsgroup
<i>comp.text.tex</i>. The (long
obsolete) last posted copy of that article is kept on CTAN for
auld lang syne.
<p/>

The sources of the present FAQ
are available from CTAN.
<p/>This FAQ and others are regularly mentioned, on
<i>comp.text.tex</i> and elsewhere, in a &#8220;pointer FAQ&#8221;
which is also saved at <a href="http://tug.org/tex-ptr-faq">http://tug.org/tex-ptr-faq</a>
<p/>A 2006 innovation from Scott Pakin is the &#8220;visual&#8221; LaTeX FAQ.
This is a document with (mostly rubbish) text formatted so as to
highlight things we discuss here, and providing Acrobat hyper-links to
the relevant answers in this FAQ on the Web.  The visual
FAQ is provided in PDF format, on CTAN; it works
best using Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 (or later); some features are
missing with other readers, or with earlier versions of Acrobat Reader
<p/>Another excellent information source, available in English, is the
<a href="http://tex.loria.fr">(La)TeX navigator</a>.
<p/>Both the Francophone TeX user group Gutenberg and the Czech/Slovak
user group CS-TUG have published translations of this FAQ, with
extensions appropriate to their languages.
<p/>Herbert Vo&#223;&#8217;s excellent 
<a href="http://texnik.de/">LaTeX tips and tricks</a>
provides excellent advice on most topics one might imagine (though
it&#8217;s not strictly a FAQ) &#8212; highly recommended for most
ordinary mortals&#8217; use.
<p/>The Open Directory Project (ODP) maintains a list of sources of
(La)TeX help, including FAQs.  View the TeX area at
<a href="http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Typesetting/TeX/">http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Typesetting/TeX/</a>
<p/>Other non-English FAQs are available (off-CTAN):
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<dt>German<dd>Posted regularly to <i>de.comp.tex</i>, and archived
  on CTAN; the FAQ also appears at
  <a href="http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/">http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/</a>
<dt>French<dd>



  A FAQ used to be posted regularly to
  <i>fr.comp.text.tex</i>, and is archived on CTAN &#8212;
  sadly, that effort seems to have fallen by the wayside.

<dt>Czech<dd>See <a href="http://www.fi.muni.cz/cstug/csfaq/">http://www.fi.muni.cz/cstug/csfaq/</a>
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<p/>Resources available on CTAN are:
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<dt><tt><i>Dante FAQ</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/de-tex-faq.zip">help/de-tex-faq</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/de-tex-faq/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>French FAQ</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/LaTeX-FAQ-francaise.zip">help/LaTeX-FAQ-francaise</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/LaTeX-FAQ-francaise/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>Sources of this FAQ</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/uk-tex-faq.zip">help/uk-tex-faq</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/uk-tex-faq/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/uk-tex-faq.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>Obsolete <code>comp.text.tex</code> FAQ</i></tt><dd>
  <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/obsolete/help/TeX,_LaTeX,_etc.:_Frequently_Asked_Questions_with_Answers">obsolete/help/TeX,_LaTeX,_etc.:_Frequently_Asked_Questions_with_Answers</a>
<dt><tt><i>The visual FAQ</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/visualFAQ/visualFAQ.pdf">info/visualFAQ/visualFAQ.pdf</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/visualfaq.html">catalogue entry</a>
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<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=whereFAQ">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=whereFAQ</a>
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