...tex2html_comment_mark¹

Copyright © 1987-1999 Student Information Processing Board of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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... EZ.²

EZ is improving, and may someday be good enough for thesis work--but L^ATEX has actually been used to write textbooks, and is a standard system in many parts of the typesetting industry (along with TEX.)

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... looking³

FrameMaker will sometimes ``lose'' documents due to bugs. EZ regularly has problems with large documents. Thesis writers beware...

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... OLC⁴

On-Line Consultants

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....⁵

This L^ATEX guide is a report.

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... are:⁶

Those marked with a ${}^{\dagger}$ require a special TEXINPUTS environment variable discussed in Section 4.

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... widths.⁷

Both fullpage and simplemargins (see below) are explained in detail in Section 6.1.

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... chapters,⁸

Chapters are available within book and report but not in article, so that an article can be included as a chapter.

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... file⁹

This information is stored in the file ending in .aux, which some people remove between invocations of L^ATEX. Doing this may save space, but it causes L^ATEX to have to repeat a lot of work, so you should avoid doing this until you're sure that you won't be re-running L^ATEX again in the near future.

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... WYSIWYG¹⁰

What You See Is What You Get

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... editing¹¹

The problem with WYSIWYG systems is that often what you see isn't really what you get, and the system usually doesn't have any good way to deal with these problems. We prefer to think of it as WYSIRN (What You See Is Really Neat) vs. WYSIWYAF (What You See Is What you Asked For) systems.

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... locker¹²

The outland locker is maintained by the SIPB and many other contributors and generally holds programs that are unsupported or in testing. This means that you probably don't want to be using LyX (or anything else from outland for important work. Please read the file /mit/outland/README for more information on the support policy.

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... PostScript¹³

PostScript is the ``language'' understood by Athena printers, and many others.

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... printer¹⁴

You can check this by typing lpq and noting what printer it lists.

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... call,¹⁵

Our phone number is 253-7788, or stop by our office in W20-557--just outside the Student Center cluster.

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... Consultants.¹⁶

On-line, type olc or call 253-4435.

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... them.¹⁷

Except for people writing books and theses, who need them.

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... margins.¹⁸

While this is very useful for double-sided documents, it can make changing the margins a little confusing.

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... footnote¹⁹

See? It's a footnote.

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... language.²⁰

Some languages require unusual fonts. SIPB is experimenting with TEX for other languages, including German, Russian, and Arabic; send email to bug-newtex if you are interested in more details.

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....²¹

Notice that although nothing in particular was subscripted, L^ATEX was told to subscript and it did the ``right thing''.

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... file.²²

The programs tgif and xfig, in the sipb locker, will allow you to draw pictures and save them as PostScript files. Also, the program xv, in the graphics locker, can convert files from many popular graphics formats to Encapsulated PostScript format (with some loss of quality) by telling it to save as PostScript. See the SIPB document An Inessential Guide to Athena for more information.

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