Questions to be answered in the New FAQ
This file contains lists of questions I have conjured up (or have had
suggested to me) for inclusion in the new FAQ.
I have still to do some work on scanning the content of our news
spool's copy of comp.text.tex, which will probably turn up some more
stuff.
Questions prefixed with a + remain to be done
- font encodings: what does T1 mean to me (Robin)
+ why (and why not) to customise your LaTeX2e
(e.g., the heated topic of paper sizes)
+ how do I create a subsubsubsection
- what is a dvi file (Carol)
- what is a driver (Carol)
- what are pk files (pxl, gf, ...) Cross ref to question on PS
problems (Carol -- not pxl, gf -- quite right too)
- LaTeX version numbers (just where did that \varepsilon come from?)
- How to flow text around figures (Robin, from Piet van Oostrum's stuff)
- Hyper(La)TeX, utilities and creation of pdf (Seb)
+ Generate a question to which fancyheadings is the answer (one almost
every day on c.t.t)
From Malcolm:
+ how do i manage to set my document ranged left in latex?
\raggedright seems to work only for a paragraph (just like the manual says).
+ are there interfaces from papyrus or the other bibliographic management
packages to bibtex?
+ how do i use the new ghostview with the paradissa fonts (i ask this one
every day, so it is becoming frequent).
+ what is the best way to make an index?
i.e., how to decide what to index, etc.
From Damian Cugley:
+ What is all the %%% @TeX-file {...} stuff at the top of files? Is there a
program for making these headers? What's this checksum program they refer
to? (we're now agreed that we're not doing this one, are we?)
From Stephen Gildea:
+ how to get all the semi-standard LaTeX packages (i.e., the set listed in the
companion -- I haven't checked whether this needs any more work...)
+ how to upgrade to a new release of LaTeX 2e
From Kees van der Laan:
- MetaPost... (Robin)
From Teck Kin Suan <suan@sfu.ca>
+ TeX/LaTeX web sites
+ resume/vita style files
+ some talk about .bst files
+ `coding gems' (hmmm.... how do we address that one?)
From Barbara B
+ MakeTeXPK (and any other font-generation stuff?)
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