- ...LaTeX
- Copyright © 1987-1995 Student Information
Processing Board of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- ...EZ.
- EZ
is improving, and may someday be good enough for thesis work-but
LaTeX 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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- ...looking
- FrameMaker will sometimes ``lose''
documents due to bugs. EZ regularly has problems with large
documents. Thesis writers beware...
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- ...OLC
- On-Line
Consultants
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- ...
report. - This LaTeX guide is a report.
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- ...default.
- Putting 10pt in the
3#3documentstyle will cause an error.
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- ...are:
- Those marked
with a 4#4 require a special
TEXINPUTS environment
variable discussed in Section 
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- ...widths.
- Both fullpage and simplemargins (see below) are
explained in detail in Section .
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- ...chapters,
- 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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- ...file
- This information is stored in the file
ending in
.aux, which some people remove between invocations of
LaTeX. Doing this may save space, but it causes LaTeX to have
to repeat a lot of work, so you should avoid doing this in general,
until you're sure that you won't be re-running LaTeX again in the
near future.
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- ...WYSIWYG
- What You See Is
What You Get
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- ...editing
- 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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- ...PostScript
- PostScript is the ``language''
understood by Athena printers, and many others.
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- ...printer
- You can check this by typing
lpq and noting what printer it lists.
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- ...locker
- The
outland locker is maintained by the SIPB and many other
contributors, and generally holds programs that are unsupported or in
testing. Please read the file /mit/outland/README for more
information on the support policy.
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- ...call,
- 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.
- On-line, type
olc or call
253-4435.
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- ...them.
- Except for people
writing books, who need them.
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- ...margins.
- While this is very useful for double-sided
documents, it can make changing the margins a little confusing.
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- ...footnote
- See?
It's a footnote.
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- ...language.
- Some
languages require unusual fonts. SIPB is
experimenting with TeX for other languages, including German,
Russian, and Arabic; send email to
sipb-babel if you are
interested in more details.
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- ...
$ _{238}U^{+4}
$. - Notice that nothing in particular was subscripted, LaTeX\
was told to subscript and it did the ``right thing''.
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- ...file.
- The programs idraw 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
PostScript format (with some loss of quality). See the SIPB document
An Inessential Guide to Athena for more information.
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