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- \title{Using \LaTeX\ at SRC}
-
- \author{Leslie Lamport}
-
- \date{27 October 1988\\ % Keep this date current
- For \LaTeX\ Version 2.09}
-
- \begin{document}
-
- \maketitle
-
- \tableofcontents
-
- \newpage
-
- \LaTeX\ runs on a variety of computers at many different sites. This
- document tells you how to use \LaTeX\ on the Magic, Lewis, and Clark
- computers at SRC. It is not about \LaTeX\ itself, which is described by
- the manual---{\em \LaTeX: A Document Preparation System}, published by
- Addison-Wesley, available at fine book stores everywhere.
-
- If you have a question that you can't answer by reading the manual and
- this document, ask \contact. He should also be informed of any
- possible \LaTeX\ bugs or undocumented anomalies.
-
-
- \section{Getting Started}
-
- \subsection{Running a Sample File} \label{sec:sample}
-
- Before preparing your own documents, you may want to get acquainted
- with \LaTeX\ by running it on a sample input file. First make your own
- copy of the file \mbox{\tt sample.tex} by typing the following
- Ultrix command:
- \begin{verbatim}
- cp /usr/local/lib/tex82/sample.tex .
- \end{verbatim}
- (You must type the space followed by the period at the end. This
- and all other Ultrix commands are ended by typing {\em return}.)
- A copy of the file \mbox{\tt sample.tex} is now in your current
- directory; you can edit it just like any other file. If you destroy or
- mess up your copy, typing the above command again gets you a fresh
- one.
-
- Next, run \LaTeX\ on the file \mbox{\tt sample.tex} by typing:
- \begin{verbatim}
- latex sample
- \end{verbatim}
- When \LaTeX\ has finished, it will have produced the file \mbox{\tt
- sample.dvi} in your directory. You can print this file by typing the
- command
- \begin{verbatim}
- iptex sample.dvi
- \end{verbatim}
- The output will be produced on the Imagen printer, located next to the
- third floor receptionist's desk. If you want to print \LaTeX\ output
- on an Apple LaserWriter, see Section~\ref{sec:apple}.
-
- After your output has been printed, you can delete \mbox{\tt
- sample.dvi} by typing
- \begin{verbatim}
- rm sample.dvi
- \end{verbatim}
-
- \subsection{Preparing and Running \LaTeX\ on Your Own Files}
-
- You must use a text editor to prepare an input file for \LaTeX. The
- document {\em Welcome to SRC\/} describes the text editors available
- at SRC. The easiest way to start learning about \LaTeX\ is by
- examining the file \mbox{\tt small.tex} with your text editor.
- You can obtain your own copy of this file, in your directory,
- by typing the command
- \begin{verbatim}
- cp /usr/local/lib/tex82/small.tex .
- \end{verbatim}
-
- After you have prepared your file, whose name should have the extension
- {\tt tex}, you must run it through \LaTeX\ and print the output.
- Follow the instructions in Section~\ref{sec:sample}, except substitute
- the first name of your file for ``\mbox{\tt sample}''. Remember to
- save disk space by deleting the {\tt dvi} file after printing the
- output.
-
-
- %List the text editors, available, and any special features they have
- %for producing \LaTeX\ input. Explain how the various text editors
- %could cause bad characters to appear in the input file that would
- %generate the
- %\begin{verbatim}
- %! Text line contains an invalid character.
- %\end{verbatim}
- %error.
-
- If you want to stop \LaTeX\ in the middle of its execution, perhaps
- because it is printing a seemingly unending string of uninformative
- error messages, type {\em Control-C\/} (press $C$ while holding down
- the key labeled {\em CTRL\/}). This will make \LaTeX\ stop as if it
- had encountered an ordinary error, and you can return to Ultrix command
- level by typing {\tt X}, as described in the manual. If typing {\em
- Control-C\/} doesn't work, typing {\em Control-Z\/} will get you
- immediately to Ultrix command level, but this will leave a stopped job
- hanging around. A stopped job won't hurt anything and will disappear
- when you log out, but it forces you to type two successive \mbox{\tt
- logout} commands to log out.
-
- To use the {\em spell\/} program for finding spelling errors in a
- \LaTeX\ input file named \mbox{\tt myfile.tex}, type the following
- command:
- \begin{verbatim}
- delatex myfile.tex | spell
- \end{verbatim}
- This will type a list of possibly misspelled words on your terminal.
- If you'd rather have the output written to a file named \mbox{\tt
- foo.bar}, type
- \begin{verbatim}
- delatex myfile.tex | spell >foo.bar
- \end{verbatim}
-
-
- \section{Carrying On}
-
- \subsection{\LaTeX\ on Ultrix} \label{sec:op-system}
-
- The only special problems in using \LaTeX\ caused by the Ultrix
- operating system involve the way Ultrix handles files. The first
- problem arises because, when a program starts to write a file, Ultrix
- destroys the previous version of that file. Thus, if an error forces
- you to stop \LaTeX\ prematurely (by typing {\em Control-C\/} or {\em
- Control-Z\/}), then the files that \LaTeX\ was writing are incomplete,
- and the previous complete versions have been destroyed. You probably
- don't care about the output on the {\tt dvi} file, but, if you are
- making a table of contents or using cross-referencing commands, then
- \LaTeX\ also writes one or more {\em auxiliary files\/} that it reads
- the next time it processes the same input file. If the auxiliary files
- are incomplete because \LaTeX\ was stopped before reaching the end of
- its input file, then the table of contents and cross-references will be
- incorrect the next time \LaTeX\ is run on the same input file. You
- will have to run \LaTeX\ a second time to get them right. If you want
- to avoid having to run \LaTeX\ twice after making an error---for
- example, if your input is very long---then you should save copies of
- these auxiliary files before running \LaTeX. An input file named
- \mbox{\tt myfile.tex} and all the auxiliary files produced by \LaTeX\
- from it are included in the Ultrix file specifier \mbox{\tt myfile.*}.
- Use the Ultrix {\tt cp} command to save copies of these files.
-
- The second problem in using \LaTeX\ on Ultrix involves the files that
- \LaTeX\ reads. The file whose name you type with Ultrix's {\tt latex}
- command is called the {\em root file}. In addition to reading the root
- file, \LaTeX\ also reads the files specified by \hbox{\verb|\input|}
- and \hbox{\verb|\include|} commands. With the Ultrix directory system,
- \LaTeX\ must know not only the names of these file but also on what
- directories they are. It will have no problem finding the correct
- files if you follow two simple rules:
- \begin{enumerate}
- \item Run \LaTeX\ from the directory containing the root file.
- \item Keep all files specified by \hbox{\verb|\input|} and
- \hbox{\verb|\include|} commands in the same directory as the root
- file.
- \end{enumerate}
- If you follow these rules, you never have to type an Ultrix path
- specifier when using \LaTeX.
-
- You should never break the first rule, otherwise \LaTeX\ will have
- trouble finding auxiliary files. (To run \LaTeX\ on someone else's
- file, copy the file to your directory.) If you break the second
- rule, specifying a file from another directory in an
- \hbox{\verb|\input|} or \hbox{\verb|\include|} command, you must use a
- complete path name. For example, to include the file \mbox{\tt hisfile.tex}
- from Jones' directory \hbox{\verb|/foo/bar|}, you can type
- \begin{verbatim}
- \include{/udir/jones/foo/bar/hisfile}
- \end{verbatim}
- A \verb|~| character may not appear in the argument of an
- \hbox{\verb|\input|} or \hbox{\verb|\include|} command, so you {\em
- can't\/} use a file name such as \hbox{\verb|~jones/foo/bar/hisfile|}.
-
- For people who don't like to obey rules,
- here is exactly how \LaTeX\ finds its
- files. The root file is found by Ultrix according to its usual rules.
- \LaTeX's auxiliary files are read and written in the directory from
- which it is run. All file names specified in the \LaTeX\ input,
- including the names of document-style ({\tt sty}) files specified by
- the \hbox{\verb|\documentstyle|} command, are interpreted relative to
- the directory from which \LaTeX\ is run. If \LaTeX\ does not find a
- file starting in this directory, it looks in the system directory
- \hbox{\verb|/usr/local/lib/tex82|}. You can change the directories in
- which \LaTeX\ looks for its input files by setting the environment
- variable \mbox{\tt TEXINPUTS}. Putting the command
- \begin{verbatim}
- setenv TEXINPUTS :.:/udir/jones/myown:/usr/local/lib/tex82:
- \end{verbatim}
- in your \mbox{\tt .login} file causes \LaTeX\ to look for files first
- in the current directory, then in Jones' {\tt /myown} directory, and
- then in the system directory. You might want to do this if your name
- is Jones and you have your own personal document-style files in your
- {\tt /myown} directory.
-
- \subsection{Document Styles}
-
-
- There are nine document styles and style options available at SRC that
- are not described in the manual:
- \begin{itemize}
- \item the \mbox{\tt proc} style option for making camera-ready copy for
- conference proceedings,
-
- \item The {\tt bezier} option for drawing curves.
-
- \item The {\tt ifthen} option for implementing {\bf if-then-else} and
- {\bf while-do} control structures.
-
- \item The \mbox{\tt srcletter} style for making letters.
-
- \item The {\tt showidx} option for printing index entries in the
- margin.
-
- \item The {\tt makeidx} option for use with the {\it MakeIndex\/}
- program. (Section~\ref{sec:makeindex} for information about this
- program).
-
- \item The {\tt ps} style option that uses Times Roman fonts.
-
- \item The {\tt preview} option for use with the {\em Proof\/}
-
- \item The {{\tt ps-slides}} style for use with \SLiTeX\ to produce
- color slides on the QMS color printer.
- \end{itemize}
- The {\tt ps} option is described in Section~\ref{sec:apple}; the
- remaining stye options are described below.
-
-
- \subsubsection{The {\tt proc} Style Option}
-
- The {\tt proc} option is used with the \mbox{\tt article} document
- style. It produces two-column output for ACM and IEEE conference
- proceedings. The command \hbox{\verb|\copyrightspace|} makes the blank
- space at the bottom of the first column of the first page, where the
- proceedings editor will insert a copyright notice. This command works
- by producing a blank footnote, so it is placed in the text of the first
- column. It must go after any \hbox{\verb|\footnote|} command that
- generates a footnote in that column.
-
- \LaTeX\ automatically numbers the output pages. It's a good idea
- to identify the paper on each page of output. Placing the command
- \begin{verbatim}
- \markright{Jones---Foo}
- \end{verbatim}
- in the preamble (before the \hbox{\verb|\begin{document}|} command)
- prints ``Jones---Foo'' at the bottom of each page.
-
- \subsubsection{The {\tt bezier} Style Option}
-
- This option defines a single command, \hbox{\verb|\bezier|}, that draws
- a curved line in a {\tt picture} environment. Let $P_{i}$ be the point
- with coordinates $(x_{i},y_{i})$, for $i=1$, 2, and 3. The command
- \begin{itemize} \tt
- \item[]
- \verb|\bezier{|$n$\verb|}(|$x_{1}$,$y_{1}$)($x_{2}$,$y_{2}$)($x_{3}$,$y_{3}$)
- \end{itemize}
- draws $n$ points on the quadratic Bezier spline determined by the three
- points $P_{1}$, $P_{2}$, and $P_{3}$. The locus of points on this
- spline is a parabolic arc from $P_{1}$ to $P_{3}$ having the line
- $P_{1}P_{2}$ tangent to it at $P_{1}$ and the line $P_{2}P_{3}$ tangent
- to it at $P_{3}$. Note that $P_{2}$ is {\em not\/} on this arc unless
- $P_{1}$, $P_{2}$, and $P_{3}$ are colinear, in which case the arc is a
- straight line. Bezier splines are useful because it's easy to join two
- of them together smoothly by giving them the same tangent line where
- they meet.
-
- It takes roughly 75 points per inch to form a solid line, depending
- upon the line thickness. See Section~C.13.3 of the manual for commands
- to specify line thickness in a {\tt picture} environment. This command
- is {\em very\/} slow, and \TeX\ has enough memory to hold only about
- 1000 points plus a page of text. (Remember that \TeX\ keeps the
- current page plus all as yet unprinted figures in memory.) So, the
- \verb|bezier| command should be used for only a small number of small
- curves.
-
-
- \subsubsection{The {\tt ifthen} Style Option}
-
- This option provides two programming language features that are useful
- only for people who already know how to program. It defines the
- two commands
- \begin{itemize}
- \item[]
- \verb|\ifthenelse{|{\em test\/}\verb|}{|{\em then clause\/}\verb|}{|%
- {\em else clause\/}\verb|}|\\
- \verb|\whiledo{|{\em test\/}\verb|}{|{\em do clause\/}\verb|}|
- \end{itemize}
- that implement the following two Pascal language structures
- \begin{itemize}
- \item[]
- \begin{tabbing}
- {\bf if} {\em test\/} \= {\bf then} \= {\em then clause\/} \\
- \> {\bf else} \> {\em else clause\/} \\[2pt]
- {\bf while} {\em test\/} {\bf do} {\em do clause\/}
- \end{tabbing}
- \end{itemize}
- The {\em then\/}, {\em else\/}, and {\em do\/} clauses
- are ordinary \LaTeX\ input; {\em test\/} is one of the following:
- \begin{itemize}
- \item A relation between two numbers formed with {\tt <}, {\tt >},
- or {\tt =}; for example, \hbox{\verb|\value{page}>3|}.
- \item \verb|\equal{|{\em string1\/}\verb|}{|%
- {\em string2\/}\verb|}|, which evaluates to {\em true\/} if {\em
- string1\/} and {\em string2\/} are the same strings of characters after
- all commands have been replaced by their definitions. (Upper- and
- lowercase letters are unequal.)
- \item A logical combination of the above two kinds of tests
- using the operators \hbox{\verb|\or|}, \hbox{\verb|\and|},
- and \hbox{\verb|\not|} and the parentheses \hbox{\verb|\(|}
- and \hbox{\verb|\)|}---for example:
- \begin{verbatim}
- \not \( \value{section} = 1 \and \equal{Jones}{\myname} \)
- \end{verbatim}
- \end{itemize}
- The {\em test\/} argument is a violently moving argument, which means
- that not only fragile commands but even some commands that are not
- normally fragile will break, causing \TeX\ to enter an infinite loop.
- The \verb|\protect| command works in these situations.
-
- These commands, together with \hbox{\verb|\renewcommand|} and the
- commands of Section~C.7.4 for manipulating counters, open up a whole
- new world of hacking.
-
-
- \subsubsection{Letters} \label{sec:letters}
-
- The \mbox{\tt letter} document style, described in the manual, should
- be used for generating personal letters. For generating letters to be
- copied onto SRC letterhead, use the \mbox{\tt srcletter} style. This
- style works for the old letterhead (the one with the Digital logo
- printed in blue). Mailing labels are formatted in two columns of five
- $2''\times\mbox{4-1/4}''$ labels each, suitable for copying onto Avery
- brand, number 5352 address labels.
-
- There are no features for making letters other than those described in
- the manual. However, suggestions will be accepted for such options as
- the ability to print ones net address as part of the letterhead.
-
- \subsubsection{The {\tt showidx} Style Option}
-
- This style option, for use with the {\tt report} or {\tt book} document
- styles, causes index entries to be printed in the outer margin. It
- does not change the effect of \verb|\makeindex|, which controls
- whether or not an {\tt .idx} file is written. No attempt is made to
- avoid overprinting marginal notes. This option issues a
- \verb|\flushbottom| declaration.
-
-
- \subsubsection{The {\tt preview} Style Option}
-
- This option formats the output so it will appear as a continuous scroll
- when viewed with the {\em Proof\/} preview program. (See the {\em man\/}
- page for for a description of {\em Proof}.)
-
- \subsection{The {\tt ps-slides} Style} \label{sec:ps-slides}
-
- This style causes \SLiTeX\ to produce output that can be printed on the
- QMS color printer with {\tt aptex} to produce color transparencies.
- When the output is printed on a black-and-white PostScript printer,
- colors are printed as different shades of gray.
-
- The {\tt ps-slides} style has the following differences from the
- ordinary {\tt slides} style.
- \begin{itemize}
- \item The \verb+\colors+
- command is made a no-op. Colors that are not predefined
- must be defined with the \verb+\newpscolor+ command (see below).
-
- \item The \verb+\colorslides+ and \verb+\blackandwhite+ commands are
- the same, except that
- \verb+\colorslides+ prints only slides and overlays, not notes.
-
- \item The meaning of the \verb+\invisible+ declaration has been
- changed, as described below. The old \verb+\visible+ command is the
- same as the new \verb+\white+ command.
-
- \item The default page style is {\tt plain}. (The alignment marks are
- no longer of any use.)
-
- \item The positioning of the body of the slide and the slide number have
- been changed to accomodate the QMS printer's small effective page
- size.
- \end{itemize}
- Except for these differences, a \SLiTeX\ input file prepared for the
- ordinary {\tt slides} style {\em should\/} work with the {\tt
- ps-slides} style. There are probably some \SLiTeX\ commands that will
- interact incorrectly with color-changing commands. These problems will
- be corrected when reported. The most likely bug is a color declaration
- ``escaping from its scope'', having a more global effect than it should.
- Such a problem can be worked around by adding redundant color-changing
- commands.
-
- The new commands defined by the {\tt ps-slides} style are listed below.
- \begin{description}
- \item[{\tt
- \begin{tabular}[b]{@{}l@{}}
- \bs newpscolor\lb{\em cmd\/}\rb
- \lb{\em red\/}\rb\lb{\em green\/}\rb\lb{\em blue\/}\rb \\
- \bs renewpscolor\lb{\em cmd\/}\rb\lb{\em red\/}\rb
- \lb{\em green\/}\rb\lb{\em blue\/}\rb
- \end{tabular}}] \mbox{}\\*
- Define the command {\em cmd\/} to produce a new color with the
- indicated RGB values, where {\em red\/}, {\em green\/}, and {\em
- blue\/} are decimal numbers between 0 and 1 (inclusive). For example:
- \begin{quote}
- \begin{tabular}{@{}l@{ $=$ [{\em red\/}: }l@{, {\em green\/}: }l@{, {\em
- blue\/}:}l@{]}}
- Black & 0 & 0 & 0\\
- White & 1 & 1 & 1\\
- Red & 1 & 0 & 0\\
- Light yellow & .5 & .5 & 0
- \end{tabular}
- \end{quote}
- For \verb+\newpscolor+, {\em cmd\/} must not already be defined; for
- \verb+\renewpscolor+, it must already be defined (but not necessarily
- as a color).
-
- The following colors are predefined:
- \begin{quote}
- \verb+\black+, \verb+\red+, \verb+\green+, \verb+\blue+,
- \verb+\yellow+, \verb+\magenta+, \verb+\cyan+,
- \verb+\white+~\hspace*{-30pt}\mbox{}
- \end{quote}
- For ordinary printers, which assume white paper, \verb+\white+ text is
- invisible. Unlike in ordinary \SLiTeX, color-changing commands can be
- used in math mode.
-
- \item[{\tt
- \begin{tabular}[b]{@{}l@{}}
- \bs invisible\\
- \bs visible
- \end{tabular}}] \mbox{}\\*
- Ordinary declarations of visibility of the text. Invisible text
- is not printed. (\TeX\ prints it in a font that whose letters are all
- print as spaces.)
- Visibility is independent of color, so you can have invisible red text,
- visible green text, and even visible white text. (Visible white text
- can be seen only when printed by a weird printer that prints on
- nonwhite paper.)
-
- \item[{\tt
- \begin{tabular}[b]{@{}l@{}}
- \bs norestore\\
- \bs restore
- \end{tabular}}] \mbox{}\\*
- The \verb+\norestore+ declaration inhibits the proper scoping of color
- declarations, causing color declarations to act as if they were global.
- The \verb+\restore+ declaration causes the current and future colors to
- become the ones they would have been had there been no \verb+\norestore+
- command. Both \verb+\norestore+ and \verb+\restore+ are global declarations.
- Example:
- \begin{verbatim}
- \black black {\green green
- \norestore {\red red} red
- \restore
- green}
- black
- \end{verbatim}
- The \verb+\norestore+ declaration is handy for color commands inside a
- tabbing or tabular environment. However, there are some anomalies:
-
- \begin{itemize}
- \item A \verb+\restore+ command inside a tabbing environment may not
- work exactly as it should. Try putting the command immediately after a
- \verb+\=+, \verb+\\+, or \verb+\>+.
-
- \item An \verb+\fbox+, \verb+\framebox+, or \verb+\frame+ command may
- do weird things in the scope of a \verb+\norestore+ if there's a color
- declaration in its argument.
-
- \item A \verb+\background + may behave strangely inside the scope of a
- \linebreak %%%%%%
- \verb+\norestore+.
- \end{itemize}
-
- \item[{\tt \bs background\lb{\em color\/}\rb\lb{\em text\/}\rb }]
- \mbox{}\\*
- Typesets {\em text} in an \mbox with a box behind it whose color is
- determined by the {\em color\/} color-changing command. The yellow box
- is the width of {\em text\/} plus a border of width \verb+\bgborder+
- around it.
-
- \item[{\tt
- \begin{tabular}[b]{@{}l@{}}
- \bs hollowbackground \\
- \bs filledbackground
- \end{tabular}}] \mbox{}\\*
- A \verb+\hollowbackground+ declaration causes any
- \verb+\background+
- command in its scope to produce an outline, much like \verb+\fbox+,
- instead of a filled box. This is useful for checking the slides with
- Proof or on a black-and-white printer. A \verb+\filledbackground+
- declaration has the opposite effect.
-
- \item[{\tt \bs nogray}] \mbox{}\\*
- A declaration that makes every color other than
- \verb+\white+ be equivalent to \verb+\black+, and issues a
- \verb+\hollowbackground+ declaration. Used to print the slides on a
- black-and-white printer so colors come out black instead of various
- shades of gray.
- \end{description}
-
- \subsection{Where the Files Are}
-
- % must explain where the following files are:
- % small.tex, sample.tex, *.sty, *.doc, lablst.tex, idx.tex
- %
-
- All \LaTeX\ files mentioned in the manual, including the {\tt sty} and
- {\tt doc} files, are in the directory \mbox{\tt /usr/local/lib/tex82}.
- Fonts are stored in two directories: the {\tt tfm} files used by \TeX\
- are on \mbox{\tt /usr/local/fonts/tfm}, and the pixel files used by
- {\em iptex\/} and other device drivers are in \mbox{\tt
- /usr/local/fonts/pixel}.
-
- \subsection{Running {\tt lablst.tex} and {\tt idx.tex}}
-
- A list of labels and citations in an input file is printed
- by running \LaTeX\ on the input file \mbox{\tt lablst.tex},
- which is done by typing
- \begin{verbatim}
- latex /usr/local/lib/tex82/lablst
- \end{verbatim}
- \LaTeX\ will then ask for the name of the input file, which should be
- typed without an extension, and for the name of the main document style
- (e.g., \mbox{\tt article}), used by that file.
-
- The index entries on an {\tt idx} file are printed by running \LaTeX\
- on the file \mbox{\tt idx.tex}, which is done by typing
- \begin{verbatim}
- latex /usr/local/lib/tex82/idx
- \end{verbatim}
- \LaTeX\ will ask for the name of the {\tt idx} file, which is typed
- without an extension.
-
-
-
- \subsection{Differences from the Manual}
-
- All \LaTeX\ features described in the manual are provided by
- the implementation at SRC.
-
- %Explain here any characters that can appear in input files other than
- %the ones listed in Section 2.1.
-
- %Tell if the \mbox{\tt log} file has an extension other than
- %\mbox{\tt .log}. Note: on TOPS-20, its extension is \mbox{\tt .lst}.
-
- %Describe the sizes of disks and circles the are available.
-
- %Don't forget to mention if the invisible fonts needed for \SLiTeX\
- %color slides are unavailable.
-
- \subsection{Using \BibTeX}
-
- \BibTeX\ is a program for compiling a reference list for a document
- from a bibliographic database. It is run by typing
- \begin{verbatim}
- bibtex myfile
- \end{verbatim}
- where \mbox{\tt myfile.tex} is the name of your \LaTeX\ input file.
- This reads the file \mbox{\tt myfile.aux}, which was generated when you
- ran \LaTeX\ on \mbox{\tt myfile.tex}, and produces the file \mbox{\tt
- myfile.bbl}. \BibTeX\ should be run from the directory containing
- \mbox{\tt myfile.tex} (which should be the same directory from which
- \LaTeX\ was run on that file).
-
- If the {\tt bib} file is not in the same directory as the \LaTeX\ input
- file---for example, if you're using someone else's {\tt bib}
- file---then you must include a path as part of the file name specified
- by the \hbox{\verb|\bibliography|} command. A \verb|~| cannot appear
- in the argument of a \hbox{\verb|\bibliography|} command, so you should
- use a complete path name. For example, the \LaTeX\ command
- \begin{verbatim}
- \bibliography{/udir/jones/bibfiles/gnus}
- \end{verbatim}
- specifies the file \mbox{\tt gnus.bib} kept by Jones in his
- \mbox{\tt /bibfiles} directory.
-
-
- There is now no formal provision for sharing bibliographic database
- information, nor are there programs to assist in making your own {\tt
- bib} files. Suggestions for forming one or more common {\tt bib} files
- are welcome.
-
- In addition to the bibliography styles described in the manual, there
- is a {\tt ieeetr} style that formats entries in the style of the IEEE
- transactions.
-
- In addition to the usual three-letter abbreviations for the months, the
- following abbreviations are defined by the bibliography styles:
- \begin{list}{}{\labelwidth 0pt \itemindent-.5\leftmargin
- \itemsep=2pt plus 1pt
- \let\makelabel\descriptionlabel}\it
- \item[\tt acmcs] ACM Computing Surveys
- \item[\tt acta] Acta Informatica
- \item[\tt cacm] Communications of the ACM
- \item[\tt ibmjrd] IBM Journal of Research and Development
- \item[\tt ibmsj] IBM Systems Journal
- \item[\tt ieeese] IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
- \item[\tt ieeetc] IEEE Transactions on Computers
- \item[\tt ieeetcad]
- IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits
- \item[\tt ipl] Information Processing Letters
- \item[\tt jacm] Journal of the ACM
- \item[\tt jcss] Journal of Computer and System Sciences
- \item[\tt scp] Science of Computer Programming
- \item[\tt sicomp] SIAM Journal on Computing
- \item[\tt tocs] ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
- \item[\tt tods] ACM Transactions on Database Systems
- \item[\tt tog] ACM Transactions on Graphics
- \item[\tt toms] ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
- \item[\tt toois] ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems
- \item[\tt toplas] ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems
- \item[\tt tcs] Theoretical Computer Science
- \end{list}
-
- % Note: All styles should share the same set of abbreviations.
-
- \subsection{Using \SLiTeX}
-
- \SLiTeX\ is a version of \LaTeX\ for making slides.
- To run \SLiTeX\ with a root file \mbox{\tt myroot.tex}, you type
- \begin{verbatim}
- slitex myroot
- \end{verbatim}
- (You should be connected to the directory containing \mbox{\tt
- myroot.tex}.) Refer to Section~\ref{sec:op-system} if you want slide
- files or \hbox{\verb|\input|} files to be in a different directory from
- your root file.
-
- Color slides can be made by copying the color layers produced by \SLiTeX\
- onto color transparencies using the Thermofax machine on the second
- floor. However, it is easier to make them with the QMS color printer
- on the 3rd floor. To use it, you must use the {\tt ps-slides}
- document style described in Section~\ref{sec:ps-slides}. The output
- of \SLiTeX\ is then printed by the command
- \begin{quote} \tt
- aptex -Pcolor {\em file-name}.dvi
- \end{quote}
- Before executing this command, check that the printer has
- transparencies in the paper tray and perform the appropriate protocol
- to synchronize with other users of the printer.
-
- \subsection{Using {\em MakeIndex\/}} \label{sec:makeindex}
-
- The {\em MakeIndex\/} program helps in making an index. It is
- described in a separate document, available through the
- {\tt printdoc} command.
-
-
- \subsection{Fonts}
-
- Almost all the symbols available on our fonts can be generated by
- ordinary \LaTeX\ commands. However, there are type sizes not
- obtainable by \LaTeX's size-changing commands with the ordinary
- document styles. Consult a local \TeX\ expert to find the
- \TeX\ name for such a font.
-
- Tables~\ref{tab:styles} and \ref{tab:fonts} allow you
- to determine if the font for a type style at a particular
- size is preloaded, loaded on demand, or unavailable.
- \begin{table}
- \centering
- \begin{tabular}{l|r|r|r|}
- \multicolumn{1}{l}{size} &
- \multicolumn{1}{c}{default (10pt)} &
- \multicolumn{1}{c}{11pt option} &
- \multicolumn{1}{c}{12pt option}\\
- \cline{2-4}
- \verb|\tiny| & 5pt & 6pt & 6pt\\
- \cline{2-4}
- \verb|\scriptsize| & 7pt & 8pt & 8pt\\
- \cline{2-4}
- \verb|\footnotesize| & 8pt & 9pt & 10pt \\
- \cline{2-4}
- \verb|\small| & 9pt & 10pt & 11pt \\
- \cline{2-4}
- \verb|\normalsize| & 10pt & 11pt & 12pt \\
- \cline{2-4}
- \verb|\large| & 12pt & 12pt & 14pt \\
- \cline{2-4}
- \verb|\Large| & 14pt & 14pt & 17pt \\
- \cline{2-4}
- \verb|\LARGE| & 17pt & 17pt & 20pt\\
- \cline{2-4}
- \verb|\huge| & 20pt & 20pt & 25pt\\
- \cline{2-4}
- \verb|\Huge| & 25pt & 25pt & 25pt\\
- \cline{2-4}
- \end{tabular}
- \caption{Type sizes for \LaTeX\ size-changing commands.}\label{tab:styles}
- \end{table}
- \begin{table}
- \centering
- \begin{tabular}{l|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
- \multicolumn{1}{l}{}&
- \multicolumn{1}{c}{\tt \bs it} &
- \multicolumn{1}{c}{\tt \bs bf} &
- \multicolumn{1}{c}{\tt \bs sl} &
- \multicolumn{1}{c}{\tt \bs sf} &
- \multicolumn{1}{c}{\tt \bs sc} &
- \multicolumn{1}{c}{\tt \bs tt} \\
- \cline{2-7}
- 5pt & D & D & X & X & X & X \\
- \cline{2-7}
- 6pt & X & D & X & X & X & X \\
- \cline{2-7}
- 7pt & P & D & X & X & X & X \\
- \cline{2-7}
- 8pt & P & D & D & D & D & D \\
- \cline{2-7}
- 9pt & P & P & D & D & D & P \\
- \cline{2-7}
- 10pt & P & P & P & P & D & P \\
- \cline{2-7}
- 11pt & P & P & P & P & D & P \\
- \cline{2-7}
- 12pt & P & P & P & P & D & P \\
- \cline{2-7}
- 14pt & D & P & D & D & D & D \\
- \cline{2-7}
- 17pt & D & P & D & D & D & D \\
- \cline{2-7}
- 20pt & D & D & D & D & D & D \\
- \cline{2-7}
- 25pt & X & D & X & X & X & X \\
- \cline{2-7}
- \end{tabular}
- \caption{Font classes: P = preloaded, D = loaded on demand,
- X = unavailable.}\label{tab:fonts}
- \end{table}
- Table~\ref{tab:styles} tells you what size of type is used for each
- \LaTeX\ type-size command in the various document-style options. For
- example, with the {\tt 12pt} option, the \hbox{\verb|\large|}
- declaration causes \LaTeX\ to use 14pt type. Table~\ref{tab:fonts}
- tells, for every type size, to which class of fonts each type style
- belongs. For example, in 14pt type, \verb|\bf| uses a preloaded
- font and the other five type-style commands use load-on-demand fonts.
- Roman (\verb|\rm|) and math italic (\verb|\mit|) fonts are all
- preloaded; the \hbox{\verb|\em|} declaration uses either italic
- (\verb|\it|) or roman.
-
- %Describe any special fonts available here.
-
- %Tell where to find a font manual, listing the character numbers of
- %the symbols on different fonts.
-
- %Include a table telling which fonts are preloaded, loaded on demand,
- %and unavailable.
-
- \subsection{Using Times Roman Fonts} \label{sec:apple}
-
- The fonts normally used by \LaTeX\ are from the Computer Modern Roman
- font family designed by Donald Knuth. Some people prefer the Times
- Roman family of fonts, which are available on the Apple LaserWriter
- printers. They are obtained with the {\tt ps} document-style option.
- Currently, this option does not work with the {\tt 12pt} style option.
- Also, fonts from the Times Roman family are available only for the
- default \verb|\rm| style and for the \verb|\it|, \verb|\bf|, and
- \verb|\sf| styles. Other styles use the ordinary CMR fonts.
-
- \TeX\ can use only the CMR fonts in math mode, so \verb|${\rm foo}=3$|
- produces ``foo'' in CMR font, which is probably not what you want.
- Instead, use \verb|$\mbox{\rm foo}=3$|, which typesets ``foo'' in Times
- Roman because \TeX\ is not in math mode inside the \verb|\mbox|. No
- one will notice that ordinary math symbols like $\alpha$ or $x$ are
- typeset in a CMR font rather than a Times Roman font.
-
- A {\tt dvi} file produced with the {\tt ps} option can be printed only
- on the Apple LaserWriter using the {\tt aptex\/} program. Type the
- Ultrix command {\tt man~aptex} to find out how to run this program.
- You can print any {\tt dvi} file with {\tt aptex}, but it is slower
- than {\tt iptex} and doesn't do a very good job printing the
- standard CMR fonts. So, use {\tt aptex} to print only {dvi} files
- created with the {\tt ps} option.
-
- The {\tt ps} option causes \LaTeX\ to use more fonts than usual,
- so there's a good chance that you'll run \TeX\ out of font
- space if you use lots of different fonts.
-
- \subsection{Special Versions}
-
- No foreign-language or other special versions of \LaTeX\
- are currently available at SRC.
-
-
- \section{Bugs}
-
- There are a few known bugs in \LaTeX\ that occur very seldom and
- cause the user little trouble, but would be very difficult to fix.
- Moreover, given the nature of complex systems, it is not unlikely that
- the corrections would lead to even worse problems. Therefore, these
- bugs will probably not be fixed.
-
- The bugs and ways to get around them are listed below. Do not worry
- about any of them until you are preparing the final draft, since
- changes to the text are very likely to cause the problem to disappear.
- \begin{itemize}
- \item In rare instances, a figure or table will be printed on the page
- preceding the text where the {\tt figure} or {\tt table} environment
- appears. This can be fixed by either moving the environment further
- towards the end of the document.
-
- \item A marginal note at the top of a page may appear in the wrong
- margin. This can be fixed by inserting a redundant \verb|\pagebreak|
- command to force a page break exactly where \LaTeX\ started the new
- page anyway.
-
- \item A footnote can be broken across two pages when it should fit on a
- single page. This happens when there is one or more figures or tables
- on the page. The problem is corrected by moving, towards the end of the
- file, the last {\tt figure} or {\tt table} environment that produces a
- figure or table on the page where the footnote starts.
- \end{itemize}
-
-
- \section{Errata and Additions to the Manual}
-
- \input{addendum}
- \end{document}
-
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