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The Very Short Guide to LaTeX
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. 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-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 [1]LaTeX Project Public
License.
Files
Source code
[2]veryshortguide.tex 23K LaTeX source
Output
[3]veryshortguide.pdf 852K PDF output
[4]veryshortguide-imposed.pdf 178K PDF output
Images
[5]menno-a.eps 444K Map (EPS)
[6]menno-a.jpg 30K Map (JPG)
Peter Flynn
References
1. http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.lppl.html
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
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