Overall Organization

In order to use this style, you need to be running a version of that supports the so-called new font selection scheme (NFSS), due to Frank Mittelbach and Rainer Schöpf. To check whether your supports NFSS, start and type \show\selectfont. If the response includes

> \selectfont=undefined.

this is the wrong . Don't despair yet; the right may be available at your site, but under a different name—try amslatex, or ask your local guru. (Strictly speaking, / [#!amslatex!#] is a set of style files that emulate /. Since their use requires NFSS and the necessary modifications are supplied with the / style files, the name is sometimes used for +NFSS.) If you can't find +NFSS at all, see further instructions in Installation.

Unlike most other styles, geom comes in several files, devoted to different capabilities such as cross-referencing, figures, indexing and so on. The files currently in the distribution are:

to $\displaystyle \hsize$ $$\displaystyle \small \valign{&\hbox{\strut ...$

The file geom.sty is the master, and it is read in when geom is called as an option to a main document style, which can be either book or article. That is, to use the stuff described in this document, calling geomyour text file should start with a line such as

\documentstyle[12pt,geom,...]{book}

When geom.sty is loaded in, it guesses what your main style is, and reads in some changes to that style, contained in the files geombook.sty, geombk12.sty, and so on.

The file multicol.sty is part of the package files developed by Frank Mittelbach and Rainer Schöpf at the University of Mainz. It is accompanied by multicol.doc, which is a ``source'' file with documentation. To obtain more of the excellent software written by Mittelbach and Schöpf, use anonymous ftp to ymir.claremont.edu, and cd to tex.inputs.latex-mainz.

The rest of this document describes the installation of geom (skip if it's already installed), its major features, and how you can take advantage of them and (sometimes) modify them. Some material that is either very technical or unlikely to be needed except under unusual circumstances is printer in smaller type and introduced by an asterisk *.