Subject: Diffs to Frequently Asked Questions about TeX and LaTeX [monthly]
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Date: 30 Oct 1995 05:50:41 GMT
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  answered many times before.
  
  Malencontreusement, je n'ai ni le temps ni la comp\'etence pour
! traduire cet article en fran\c{c}ais. Je prie donc, le lecture
  interess\'e par fr.comp.text.tex d'avoir l'indulgence d'accepter la
  version anglaise.
  
! This is version 1.51 for April, last changed 4/3/95. Lately, the posting
! has been infrequent, which I apologize for; this is because I'm 
! currently finishing my dissertation. After that's done, I hope to have
! the time to do some major restructuring to the document.
  
  This article includes answers to:
  
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  answered many times before.
  
  Malencontreusement, je n'ai ni le temps ni la comp\'etence pour
! traduire cet article en fran\c{c}ais. Je prie donc, le lecteur
  interess\'e par fr.comp.text.tex d'avoir l'indulgence d'accepter la
  version anglaise.
  
! This is version 1.52 for November, last changed 10/29/95. Well, the last
! many months have seen me incredibly busy, with my dissertation,
! graduation, some vacation, interviewing for jobs, accepting one, and
! moving. I'm settling into place in the research group at Microsoft,
! and it's time to get back to this document. Special apologies to Robin
! Fairbairns, who had my assurances that this document would be posted
! about a month ago. An additional note that may be of interest to some:
! when I came to write my dissertation, I petitioned the Dean of Graduate
! Studies at Caltech and got the double-spaced requirement removed. Thus,
! Caltech now accepts single-spaced dissertations. I hope this is useful
! to others in getting this terrible requirement changed.
  
  This article includes answers to:
  
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        the end. Why?
    48) In LaTeX, how do I make a line break in a section title?
    49) In LaTeX, how do I number equations by section?
+   50) What is the fontinst package?
  
  If you are looking, for instance, for the answer to question 17, and wish
  to skip everything else, you can search ahead for the regular expression
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  Louarn, Rafal Zbikowski, Anita Marie Hoover, David Rhead, Darrell
  McCauley, Cameron Smith, Emma Pease, Patrick McPhee, Karl Berry, Robin
  Fairbairns, Joohee Jeong, Sam Steingold, J\"org Knappen, Barbara
! Beeton, Norman Ramsay, and Richard Mathar provided additional material
! and criticisms. The format of this document is based on the Frequently
! Asked Questions written by Steve Hayman which formerly appeared in
! comp.unix.wizards. Any mistakes are mine. Send corrections,
! suggestions, and additions to bobby@hot.caltech.edu.
  
  1) How can I get a copy of this article?
  
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  Louarn, Rafal Zbikowski, Anita Marie Hoover, David Rhead, Darrell
  McCauley, Cameron Smith, Emma Pease, Patrick McPhee, Karl Berry, Robin
  Fairbairns, Joohee Jeong, Sam Steingold, J\"org Knappen, Barbara
! Beeton, Norman Ramsay, Richard Mathar, and Juergen Schlegelmilch
! provided additional material and criticisms. The format of this
! document is based on the Frequently Asked Questions written by Steve
! Hayman which formerly appeared in comp.unix.wizards. Any mistakes are
! mine. Send corrections, suggestions, and additions to
! bobby@hot.caltech.edu.
  
  1) How can I get a copy of this article?
  
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      22. Some vendors who supply particular PostScript fonts may have
      packages which simplify this even further.
  
+     Alan Jeffrey's fontinst package allows you to handle PostScript
+     fonts in ways not dealt with by PSNFSS. See question 50 for more
+     details.
+ 
  24) How can I convert from format Y to TeX or LaTeX, and vice-versa?
  
      troff - troff-to-latex is available from any CTAN site (see
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        command: SENDME TROFFTOTEX in the body of a mail message to
        FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu), or use anonymous ftp
        to the directory [.TROFFTOTEX] on Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8).
+       The GNU version of troff, groff, can also convert to a .dvi file.
  
      scribe - Mark James has a copy of scribe2latex he has been
        unable to test but which he will let anyone interested have.
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         \caption{A Figure}    or     \caption{A Figure\label{fig}}
         \label{fig}                  \end{figure}
         \end{figure}
+     The \label command should in fact come immediately after the \caption
+     command, as closing an environment will also cause problems:
+           WON'T WORK                  WILL WORK
+         \begin{figure}              \begin{figure}
+         \begin{center}              \begin{center}
+         \caption{A Figure}          \end{center}
+         \end{center}                \caption{A Figure}
+         \label{fig}                 \label{fig}
+         \end{figure}                \end{figure}
  
  37) I want to change the margins in LaTeX. What can I do?
  
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      For DOS, jspell is an extended version of ispell, and is available via
      anonymous ftp from oak.oakland.edu (141.210.10.117) in 
!     ./pub/msdos/tex/jspell*.zip.
  
      For VMS, a spell checker can be found via anonymous ftp from ftp.spc.edu
      in  [.MACRO32.SAVESETS]. Retrieve SPELL.ZIP and SPELL_DICTIONARY.ZIP. 
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      For DOS, jspell is an extended version of ispell, and is available via
      anonymous ftp from oak.oakland.edu (141.210.10.117) in 
!     ./SimTel/msdos/jspel*.zip
  
      For VMS, a spell checker can be found via anonymous ftp from ftp.spc.edu
      in  [.MACRO32.SAVESETS]. Retrieve SPELL.ZIP and SPELL_DICTIONARY.ZIP. 
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      equations by section, and the second gives individual equation
      numbers to equations in the appendix.
  
+ 50) What is the fontinst package?
+ 
+     Fontinst is a package written and supported by Alan Jeffrey. It
+     makes the inclusion of PostScript fonts in LaTeX very easy by
+     providing a set TeX macros which allows users to install virtual
+     fonts. It can convert fonts from Adobe Font Metric (afm) or TeX
+     Property List (pl) format into Virtual Property List (vpl)
+     format. These Virtual Fonts (vfs) can then be used by your
+     favourite device driver, such as dvips. Fontinst is available from
+     any CTAN archive (see question 22) in ./fonts/utilities/fontinst.
+     
+     The package is written in TeX, for maximum portability at the cost
+     of speed. It supports the OT1 (Computer Modern) and T1 (Cork)
+     encodings, and allows fonts to be generated in an arbitrary
+     encoding, with arbitrary `fake' characters---for example the `ij'
+     character can be faked if necessary by putting an `i' next to a
+     `j'. In addition, it can be customized by the user to deal with
+     arbitrary font encodings.
+     
+     The package allows kerning to be shared between characters, for
+     example `ij' can be kerned on the left as if it were an `i' and on
+     the right as if it were a `j'. This is useful, since many
+     PostScript fonts only include kerning information for characters
+     without diacriticals.  Fontinst allows more than one PostScript
+     font to contribute to a TeX font, for example the `ffi' ligatures
+     for a font can be taken from the Expert encoding, if you have it,
+     and it automatically generates an fd file for use with LaTeX. You
+     can generate math fonts with nextlarger, varchar, and arbitrary
+     font dimensions. Caps and small caps fonts can be generated with
+     letter spacing and kerning.
+      
+     You use fontinst by writing a short LaTeX source file describing
+     which fonts you want to combine, which transformations are
+     necessary and what fonts you want to have finally. There are many
+     contributions that can serve as a base for you to get started with
+     fontinst. Running LaTeX on this source file will then produce the
+     desired font definition and property files.
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