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Formatting Information
An introduction to typesetting with LATEX
Welcome to Formatting Information
This is the online version of Formatting Information, a book about how to use the LATEX document preparation system. LATEX takes over where wordprocessors and desktop publishing systems leave off, making it possible to automate your formatting consistently, accurately, and reusably, without the tedious and repetitive manual formatting required by other systems.
This book has helped thousands of users get started. It’s now at version 7.6 (2017) but this is an interim release: everything has been tested but some details remain to be rewritten — this has now to wait until the next release of TEX Live (2016) towards the end of the year. The only things you need are a computer and a copy of LATEX (free or commercial)...and a document that you want to typeset. LATEX works on almost any computer, and you can download it from the TUG web site, install it from the TUG DVD, or buy one of the excellent commercial versions.
In the web and eBook editions, this page doubles as the index, but in the print (PDF) edition, the index is at the end. If you haven’t done any typesetting before, I recommend that you start at the beginning. If you’re itching to get started, and you feel you know enough about computers and text-editing already, you can try the Quick Start instead.
Either way, welcome to LATEX. Take it gently for a while, and get used to being able to spend more time actually writing than formatting. If you find mistakes, please let me know so that I can correct them.
Some font conventions are used in the text and the index to distinguish between different meanings. These are listed in § 7. The entries in the index are all hyperlinked to their source. In the web and eBook editions, subsequent multiple occurrences give the section number or name. Page or section numbers in bold type indicate the location where the entry is explained.
Index
Fine, Jonathan Home
Kastrup, David Home
Chikrii, Kirill A 8.2
Kew, Jonathan 1.2
Berry, Karl B.3
Péter Szabó 4.4
Stallman, Richard Preface
Wawrykiewicz, Staszek 4.4
Ota, Takaaki 4.2
Jørgensen, Palle 6.3
Jørgensen, Palle 6.2
Kay, Michael Intro.1
Nowacki, Janusz M 6.3
Sathyam, Ujwal 8.1
Knuth, Donald D
Feuerstack, Thomas A
Schenk, Christian A
Knuth, Donald 7.4
Lamport, Leslie 7.4
Berry, Karl B.3
Budyta, Małgorzata 6.3
Chassell, Bob Preface
Clea F Rees 5.3
Dorner, Fernando 8.2
DuBois, Paul 8.1
Esser, Thomas A
Granzer, Andreas 8.2
Gregorio, Enrico 4.4
Hennings, Wilfried 8.2
Malyshev, Basil K Home
Stephani, Philipp 4.4
Talbot, Nicola 4.2
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@Heading[Interest Rates] Home
\@maketitle 7.2
A
\aa 1.8
\AA 1.8
AAP Home
\abstractname 2.4
abstracts 2.4
accents 1.8
ADA 4.7
\addbibresource 5.3
\addcontentsline 2.8
\addtocontents 2.8
Adobe Font Metric (AFM) B.3
\ae 1.8
\AE 1.8
\affiliation 2.3
American Political Science Review (APSR) 5.3
American Mathematical Society (AMS) 6.2
American National Standards Institute (ANSI) E
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (see ASCII) E
ampersand 1.6
\arabic 7.6
arguments 1.4
\arraybackslash 4.2
\arraystretch 4.2
ASCII Intro.2, Intro.4, 1.8, 1.10, 2.1, 4.4, 4.7, 8.1, B, C.4, E
\author{your name} Home
B
b 4.6
\b o 1.8
backslash 1.4
badness C.3
Barbara Beeton A.3
baselinestretch 6.1
\begin{...} 2.2
\begin{abstract} 2.4
\begin{document} 1.8, 2.2, 2.4, 7.2, 8.1
\begin{itemize}[nosep] 4.1
\begin{tabular} 4.2
Berry, Karl A
BIBINPUTS 5.3
biblatex Credits, 1.2, 1.8, 1.8, 5.3, 5.3, Home, 5.3, 5.3, 5.3, 5.3, Home, 5.3, 5.3, 5.3, 5.3, 5.3, 5.3, 5.3
bibliographies 5.3
\bibliography 5.3
\bigskip 6.1
binary 1
BMP 4.4
boxes 4.6
bp (big points) 1.9
C
\c C 1.8
\c c 1.8
CALS 4.2
Cascading Style Sheets (see CSS) 8.2
cat *.id >>zor.map B.3
cc (Ciceros) 1.9
center 1.4, 1.9, 4.2, 4.2, 6.2
Change Directory C.1
Chocolate Stout Home
\cite 5.3, 5.3, 5.3, Home, 5.3, 5.3, 5.3, 5.4
\citep[Foreword, p.13]{fg} 5.3
\cite{fg} Home
class 3.1
classes 3.1
\clearpage Home
\cline 4.2
cm (centimeters) 1.9
CMYK 6.2
\colorbox{midblue}{\color{magenta}magenta on midblue} 6.2
colour 6.2
columns 5.5
columnsep 5.5
\command Home
Command-Line Interface (see CLI) Intro.1
commands 1.4
comment character 1.6
commercial distributions Intro.5
Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Intro.1
commutative 6.2
Comprehensive TEX Archive Network (see CTAN) 3
ConTEXt Preface
cross-references 5.3
CSV 4.2
CTAN Foreword, Preface, Intro.4, Intro.5, Intro.6, Home, 2.1, 3, 3, 3.1, 3.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.2, 3.3, 3.3, 4.4, 5.3, 5.4, 6.2, 6.2, 6.2, 8.1, 8.2, A, A, A.2, A.4, B.2, C.5, D.2
CTAN 5.4
curly braces 1.4
Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black (see CMYK) 6.2
D
\d s 1.8
\datesubmitted 2.3
dd (Didot points) 1.9
DEB Home
\DeclareFontFamily B.3
\DeclareFontShape B.3
\definecolor 6.2
DELete C.1
description 4.1
description* 4.1
desktop publishing (see DTP) Preface
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Preface
Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) 1
dimension 2.7
dimensions 1.9
DOCTEX 3.2
document Intro.4, 1.4, 1.8, 2.2, 2.3
document class 2.1
Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL) 8.3
\documentclass 1.4, 1.8, 2.1, 2.1, 2.4, 3.1, 6.2
\documentclass{article} 8.1
dots per inch (see DPI) Intro.1
double-spacing 6.1
\doublespacing 6.1
DPI Intro.4
draft 2.1
\dtae C.3
DTD Home
DVD Home, Intro.6, 8, A.4, Home
DVI Preface, Preface, 3.1, 4.4, 4.4, 4.6, 8.2, C.4, C.4, C.4, C.4
dvips -f testpage | lpr A.1
dvips -R0 ... dvifile 4.4
dvipsnames 6.2
E
ECDL Intro.2
\EF 7.1
em (relative measure) 1.9
\emph{ 8.1
empty 6.1
Encapsulated Postscript (see EPS) 4.4
\end{...} 2.2
\end{abstract} 2.4
\end{document} 1.4, 1.4, 2.2, 8.1
\end{itemize} 1.4
\end{verbatim} 4.7
\enspace Home
enumerate 4.1
enumerate* 4.1
enumi Home
enumii Home
enumiii Home
enumitem 3.2, 4.1, 4.1, 4.1, 4.1, 6.1
enumiv Home
environment Home, 1.4, 2.2, 4.1
EPUB3 Home
equation 1.10
error C
Error messages C.3, C.3, C.3, C.3, C.3, C.3, C.3
Euro 1.6
European Computer Driving Licence (see ECDL) Intro.1
ex (relative measure) 1.9
example 4.1
Extensible Markup Language (see XML) 8
Extensible Stylesheet Language (see XSL) 8.3
F
\fancyhead 6.1
fc-cache -fv 6.2
fc-list B.1
FD B.3
figure* 5.5
figures 4.3
filenames C
\fnsymbol 5.1
font definition B.3
font series 6.2
font shape 6.2
\fontencoding 6.2
fonts 2.1, 6.2, 6.2, 6.2, 6.2, 6.2, 6.2, B, B.3, B.3
\fontsize 6.2
\footcite{fg} Home
footnotes 5.1
\footnotesize Home
\footnote{...} Home
\footnote{Like this} 5.1
\foreignlanguage 1.9
Frequently-Asked Questions (see FAQ) 3.3
FTP 3
G
geometry 2.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.1, 3.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.1
GIF 4.4
\gls 5.4
\gls{esis} 5.4
GNU Home, Intro, Intro.4, Intro.8
GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) 4.4
Graphics Interchange Format (see GIF) 4.4
\graphicspath 4.4
grep B.1
grouping 6.2
groups 6.2
H
\H o 1.8
Hagen Hans Preface
hash mark 1.6
headings 6.1
help 3.3
\hrule 7.2
\hspace{1in} 6.1
HTML Home, Preface, Home, Intro.8, Home, 2.1, 2.2, 2.7, 4.2, 4.2, 5.3, 6.2, 8.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.2, 8.3
HTML5 Credits, Home, 5.3, 8.2, 8.2
HTTP 3
\huge Home
\Huge Home
HyperText Markup Language (see HTML) 8
hyphen 4.7
I
\i 1.8
IBM Home
ID 5.3
images 4.4
in (inches) 1.9
\includegraphics 4.3, 4.4, 4.4, 4.4, 4.4, 4.4
\includegraphics[width=3in]{myhouse} 4.7
indexes 5.4
\index{beer!lite!American} 5.4
\index{beer!lite} 5.4
\index{beer} 5.4
\index{Microbrew|see{beer}} 5.4
\index{Oregon Brewing Company@Rogue} 5.4
INFO Preface
inline 4.1
inparaenum 4.1
\input{mygloss.tex} 5.4
Installation A
ISO Intro.6
ISP 3
itemize* 4.1
\itshape Home
J
Joint Photographic Experts Group (see JPG) 4.4
JPG Home, 4.4, 4.4, 4.4, 4.4, 4.4, 4.4
K
Kew, Jonathan Preface
Knuth, Donald Preface
Knuth, Donald Preface
kpsewhich 6.3
L
\l 1.8
\L 1.8
\label 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.3, 5.3, 5.3
\labelitemi 7.6
\labelitemiv 7.6
Lamport, Leslie Preface
\large Home
\LARGE Home
latex testpage A.1
\leftmark 6.1
letterspacing Home
\linebreak 7.3
Linux A
\listoffigures 2.8
\listoftables 2.8
Lotz, Manfred A
\lowerbox 7.6
lrbox 4.6
ls -R A.5
M
Mac OS X A
\makeglossary 5.4
\maketitle 2.3, 2.3, 2.4, 2.4, 2.8, 3.1, 6.2, 7.2, 7.2, C.3
man makeindex 5.4
MARC Preface
marginal notes 5.2
\marginal{Some text} 5.2
margins 6.1
\markboth 6.1
\markright 6.1
markup 1
math characters 1.10
measurements 1.9
\medskip 6.1
metacharacters 1.6
metadata 2.3
Michael Sperberg-McQueen A.3
Microbrew Home
Microsoft Bitmap (see BMP) 4.4
Microsoft Windows A
Minimal [Non-]Working Example (MWE) 3.3
minipage 4.6, 4.6, 4.6, 5.1, 7.5
mirror 4.4
mkdir B.3
mkdir ~/Library/texmf A.2
mkdir -p fonts/source/public/whatever B.2
mkdir ~/texmf A.2
mm (millimeters) 1.9
more C.1
MoVe C.1
multicols 5.5
multiplier 4.2
myheadings 6.1
N
New Font Selection Scheme (NFSS) B
New Typesetting System (NTS) Preface
\newcounter{example} 4.1
\newfontface 6.2
\newfontfamily 6.2
\newgeometry 6.1
\newglossaryentry 5.4
NNTP 3.3
\noindent 4.5
noitemsep 4.1
normalem 6.2
\normalsize Home
nosep 4.1
O
\o 1.8
\O 1.8
octothorpe 1.6
\oe 1.8
\OE 1.8
\onehalfspacing 6.1
oneside 2.1
options 3.1
OS X A
\ovalbox 4.6
P
\P 5.3
packages 2.1, 3.1, 3.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.2, 3.2
page size C.5
\pageref 5.3
panels 4.6
paper sizes 2.1
\parbox[t]{3in}{...} 4.6
\part 2.6
\part* 2.6
pc (picas) 1.9
PCTEX Home
PDF Home, Home, Preface, Preface, Preface, Preface, Intro.4, 1.7, 2.1, 3.1, 4.4, 4.4, 4.4, 4.4, 4.4, 4.4, 4.4, 4.4, 4.6, 4.7, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, B.3, C.4, C.4, C.4, C.4, C.5
Personal Digital Assistant (see PDA) Intro.1
personal TEX directory A.2
personal TEX folder A.2
\person{Don Knuth} 7.4
\person{Leslie Lamport} 7.4
PFB B.3
picas 1.9
picture 4.3
plain 6.1
plaintext 1
PNG Home, 4.4, 4.4, 4.4, 4.4, 4.4
points 1.9
Portable Document Format (see PDF) 4.4
Portable Network Graphic (see PNG) 4.4
PostScript (PS) 8.2
PostScript Font ASCII (PFA) B.3
PostScript Font Binary (see PFB) B.3
Preamble 1.8
preview C.4
\printbibliography 5.3
Printer Control Language (PCL) 4.4
\printglossaries 5.4
\printindex 5.4
prompt C.1
\protect 5.1
\ProvidesPackage B.3
pt (points) 1.9
Q
\qquad Home
quotation marks 1.7
R
\RaggedLeft 1.9
\raggedright 1.9, 1.9, 4.2, 4.6
\RaggedRight 1.9
Raggett, Dave 8.1
Rahtz, Sebastian A
\raisebox 7.6
references 5.3
\ref{normalxref} Home
ReMove C.1
REName C.1
\renewcommand 2.4, 2.4, 2.6, 4.2, 7.2, 7.6
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5} 4.2
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.75} 6.1
\RequirePackage 6.2
RGB 6.2
Rich Text Format (see RTF) 8.1
\rightmark 6.1
\rmdefault B.3
Rogue Home
rotate 4.4
RPM Home
RSS 3.3
S
\S 5.3
Scalable Vector Graphics (see SVG) 6.2
scale 4.4
Scale 6.2
\scriptsize Home
\scshape Home
section Home, 1.4, 2.6, 2.6, 2.7, 6.1, 7.6
section numbering 2.6
sections 2.6
\section{Interest Rates} Home
\section{Introduction} 7.6
\selectlanguage 1.9
\sentinel 7.4
\setmainfont 6.2
\setmonofont 6.2
\setsansfont 6.2
\sfdefault B.3
Show Library Folder A.2
sidebars 4.6
\singlespacing 6.1
size (fonts) 6.2
\slshape Home
\smallskip 6.1
sp (scaled points) 1.9
space 6.1
spaceskip 1.9
spacing 6.1
\ss 1.8
Standard Generalized Markup Language (see SGML) 8.3
strut 4.2
style (fonts) 6.2
\subparagraph* 2.6
\subsubsection 2.6
sudo su - 6.2
sudo texconfig A.1
summaries 2.4
SVG 8.2
svgnames 6.2
T
t 4.6
\t oo 1.8
T1 1.8
tabcolsep 4.2
table* 5.5
\tableofcontents 1.5, 2.8, 2.8, 2.8, C.3
tables 4.2
\tablesfont 6.2
tabular 4.2, 4.2, 4.3, 4.6, 4.6
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) 4.4
TDS 3.1, 3.2, 3.2, 3.2, 3.2, 6.2, B
temporary directory 3.2
term Home
terminal C
TEX Directory Structure (see TDS) 3.2
texconfig A.1
texdoc 3.1
\text 5.4
Text Encoding Initiative (see TEI) D.1
text-only interface C.1
\textbackslash 1.6
\textbf{text} Home
\textbrokenbar 1.10
\textbullet 4.1
\textcolor 6.2
\textcolor{red}{like this} 6.2
\textdegree 1.10
\texteuro 1.6
\textit{text} Home
\textlangle 1.10
\textrangle 1.10
\textsc{text} Home
\textsf{text} Home
\textsl{text} Home
\textsterling 1.6
\textsuperscript 1.6
\texttrademark 7.3
\texttt{text} Home
textwidth Home
\thechapter 7.6
\theenumi Home
\theenumii Home
\theenumiii Home
\theenumiv Home
\theexample 4.1
\TheSbox 7.5
\thesection 7.6
\thispagestyle 6.1
Thành, Hàn Thế 1.2
Thành, Hàn Thế Preface
tilde 1.6
\tiny Home
\titlecite 5.3
titlepage 2.1
titles 2.3
\tmproduct 7.3
\tmproduct{Velcro} 7.3
\today 1.4
tools 5
tracking Home
TrueTEX Home
\ttdefault B.3
\ttfamily Home
TUG Foreword, Preface, Preface, Intro.6, Intro.5, A, Home
twocolumn 5.5
twoside 2.1
typographics 6
U
\u u 1.8
\uline 6.2
unboxed 4.1
Uniform Resource Indicator (see URI) 4.7
Uniform Resource Locator (URL) 4.7
units 1.9
Unix A
unscoped 6.2
\upshape Home
URI 2.1, 3.3, 4.7, 4.7, 4.7, A.4
url 1.4, 1.4, 4.7, 4.7, 4.7, 5.1, 8.1
US Home
\usepackage 1.4, 2.1, 3.1, 3.1, B.2, C.3
\usepackage{foozork} B.3
\usepackage{graphicx} 4.4, 4.4
\usepackage{kurier} 6.3
\usepackage{xcolor} 6.2
utf8 1.8
V
V B.3
\v u 1.8
\verb 4.7, 4.7, 4.7, 4.7, 4.7, 5.1
Verbatim 4.7
verbatim text 4.7
\VerbatimFootnotes 5.1
viewer C
\vspace 6.1
\vspace*{19pt} 6.1
\vspace{18pt} 6.1
VTEX Home
W
What You See Is What You Get (see WYSIWYG) Intro.1
white-space 1.9, 6.1, 6.1, 6.1, Home
WYSIWYG Preface, Preface, Home, 2, 8.1, C.4
X
xcolor Home, 3.1, 3.1, 3.1, Home, 4.6, 6.2, 7.2
XML Home, Home, Foreword, Preface, Preface, Intro.4, Intro.8, Home, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 4.2, 4.7, 8, 8.1, 8.1, 8.1, 8.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, E
XSL 8.3
XSLT Home, Foreword, 8.1, 8.1, 8.1, 8.3, E
XƎTEX Preface
Z
[
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^
\^e 1.8
\^w 1.8
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\`e 1.8
~
\~g 1.8
\~n 1.8
␣
\␣ 1.9
Revision history
- v. 7.81 — 19 November 2018
- Updated and rewrote the section on image file formats
- v. 7.8 — 25 February 2018
- Updated BachoTEX and MarkupUP
- v. 7.7 — 14 February 2018
- Updated conference dates; added details of lwarp; fixed bibref pointer to PDF pages where given.
- v. 7.6 — 14 May 2017
- Added salient comments about how to choose an editor from Michael Sperberg-McQueen, and slides from TUG 2017 from Barbara Beeton on how to handle LATEX errors.
- v. 7.5 — 21 January 2017
- Full update of Mac and Windows installation with new screenshots and a new layout for procedures; introduction of an XSLT routine to test when an element is immediately preceded by another element with only white-space intervening, and to generate a space token if needed (this overcomes the design flaw alluded to in the revision comments to v3.7 below); many updates to phraseology, and removal of obsolete mentions of packages and practices.
- v. 7.45 — 4 November 2016
- Updated details of TDS package installation
- v. 7.44 — 11 October 2016
- Updated details of meetings
- v. 7.43 — 15 April 2016
- Updated comments on superscripted ordinals, spacing around em rules, and details of loading OTF/TTF fonts
- v. 7.42 — 1 March 2016
- Edited all sections, corrected spellings, updated package details and all examples to XƎLATEX/biblatex/biber, fixed stray typos, checked links,. This is preparatory to v8, due for later in 2016.
- v. 7.41 — 30 January 2016
- Minor typos, updated event dates
- v. 7.4 — 16 November 2015
- Started updating converters
- v. 7.3 — 26 October 2015
- Updated meetings for 2016
- v. 7.2 — 12 July 2015
- Several sections re-ordered to present the material is a more logical fashion. Numerous grammatical elisions corrected, and some late typos (thanks to Rob Borland).
- v. 7.1 — 10 June 2015
- Minor changes to accommodate revised PDF format.
- v. 7.0 — 30 July 2014
- Completely re-edited, large sections rewritten, obsolete material removed, including installation changes for the 2014 DVD, and a completely new responsive web site launched.
- v. 6.0 — 30 December 2013
- Updated links, replaced references to obsolescent packages, rewrote installation for the 2013 DVD
- v. 5.7 — 21 December 2011
- Moved and expanded the details of creating a personal TeX directory. Added new section on using the LaTeX Font Catalog.
- v. 5.6 — 1 November 2011
- Revised installation details for TL2011.
- v. 5.5 — 25 May 2011
- Minor revision; added details of page references in citations, a warning about the broken harvard.sty and its solution with natbib and har2nat, and a reference to bibunits.
- v. 5.4 — 27 April 2011
- Minor revision; added details of packages for body type size options; fixed bug in HTML bibrefs which were failing to retrieve the date.
- v. 5.3 — 22 March 2011
- Minor revision; removed mention of VTeX as a synchronous typographic editor and replaced with BaKoMa TeX. Located and fixed XSLT bug which was preventing cross-reference IDs being used correctly. Finally tracked down the non-appearance of italics in some places (no Lite Italic in my copy of Antique Olive).
- v. 5.2 — 13 March 2011
- Minor revision; even finer details of the problems Windows users face at installation.
- v. 5.1 — 5 March 2011
- Minor revision; spellings and font selection errors repaired; missing rule in HTML table example; better details of the problems Windows users face at installation.
- v. 5 — 28 January 2011
- Major revision; Installation and Editors sections rewritten, remaining package references updated, and more new ones added.
- v. 4 — 1 April 2009
- Major revision; Installation and Editors sections reorganised, all package references updated, and new ones added.
- v. 3.7 — 22 December 2006
- There have again been some small but significant improvements, both in the LATEX code, and in the default installations and implementations. The default colour package is now xcolor; the default output for many people is now PDF; and the advent of XƎTEX means that TrueType fonts and Unicode are now much more easily supported. The DocBook DTD has been updated to 4.4, and the TypeBook DTD shim likewise, and the IGNOREd code from 3.5 and earlier versions has now finally been dropped. XSLT still has the notorious design flaw of ignoring whitespace nodes in mixed content when a DTD is used, but this seems to have gone unnoticed except by the publishing industry. The use of the citetitle element for bibliographic references has been replaced by biblioref.
- v. 3.6 — 31 March 2005
- Since the publication of the November 2003 edition in TUGboat, several new books on LATEX have been released, and this edition reflects some of the new material and approaches contained in them. See the Bibliography for details of these publications. The only technical change has been to use empty elements for the TEX, LATEX, and other logos instead of the more usual entities so that the HTML version can use CSS to produce better logos. Thanks to whoever wrote the CSS for TEX4ht, which is where I found the styles.
- v. 3.5 — 29 July 2004
- Modified DTD to add span element type to allow use of external entities for formatted TEX, LATEX, and other logos in the HTML version. Changed entity declaration in the internal subset to enable this, and switched declarations and marked sections in the DTD. This now means it needs Saxon 7 or 8 to process, as Saxon 6 does not handle parameter entities values used as parameter entity declarations.
- v. 3.4 — 9 November 2003
- Applied all Barbara Beeton’s corrections (see separate emails) and rewrote a few formatting macros to allow the document to fit more easily into US Letter shape. It would be nice if it would also format for A5 so that it could become a paperback but that’s another day’s work. Started on writing the missing sections (Installing Type 1 CM Fonts and Going beyond LATEX, but these are not finished yet) and rewrote entirely the existing (non-CM) Type 1 font installation procedure in line with the new (unreleased) Gutta-Percha script. Added hidden meanings for CD-ROM, DVD, IBM.
- v. 3.3 — 20 August 2003
- Fixed XSLT bug which wrongly lettered appendices. Fixed problem which called wrong font for examples of Times and Helvetica (thanks to William Adams). Updated numerous typos, added comments about pdftex option to color. Rewrote formatting for TUGboat.
- v. 3.2 — 5 March 2003
- Finished rewrite. Revised and expanded almost everything.
- v. 3.1 — 28 August 2002
- Recast in DocBook and reworded some sections. Started the big rewrite.
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