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\section{Introduction}

This is a set of Frequently Asked Questions (\acro{FAQ}) for
English-speaking users of \TeX{}.  The questions answered here cover
a wide range of topics, but the actual typesetting issues are mostly
covered from the viewpoint of a \LaTeX{} user.

You may use the \acro{FAQ}
\begin{itemize}
\item by reading a printed document,
\item by viewing a \acro{PDF} file, with hyperlinks to assist
  browsing: copies are available formatted for printing on
  \CTANhref{faq-a4}{A4 paper} or on % ! line break
  \CTANhref{faq-letter}{North American ``letter'' paper}, or
\item by using the \acro{FAQ}'s web interface (base \acro{URL}:
  \URL{http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq}); this version provides simple
  search capabilities, as well as a link to Google for a more
  sophisticated search restricted to the \acro{FAQ} itself, or
\item via Scott Pakin's \CTANhref{visualFAQ}{Visual FAQ}.
\end{itemize}

\subsection{Finding the Files}

Unless otherwise specified, all files mentioned in this \acro{FAQ}
are available from a \acro{CTAN} archive, or from a mirror of
\acro{CTAN}~--- see \Qref[question]{later discussion}{Q-archives}% ! space
\narrowonly{, which gives details} of the \acro{CTAN}
archives\wideonly{ and}\narrowonly{, including} how to retrieve files
from them.  If you don't have access to the internet, the
\Qref*{\texlive{} distribution}{Q-CD} offers off-line snapshots of the
archives.

The reader should also note that the first directory name of the
path name of every file on \acro{CTAN} is omitted from what
follows, for the simple reason that, while it's always the same
(\path{tex-archive/}) on the main sites, mirror sites often choose
something else.

To avoid confusion, we also omit the full stop from the end of
any sentence whose last item is a path name (such sentences are
rare, and only occur at the end of paragraphs).  Though the path
names are set in a different font from running text, it's not easy
to distinguish the font of a single dot!

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The \acro{FAQ} was originated by the Committee of the \acro{UK}
\TeX{} Users' Group (\acro{UK}~\acro{TUG}) as a development of a
regular posting to the \emph{Usenet} newsgroup
\Newsgroup{comp.text.tex} that was maintained for some time by Bobby
Bodenheimer.  The first \acro{UK} version was much re-arranged and
corrected from the original, and little of Bodenheimer's work now
remains.

The following people (at least~--- there are almost certainly others
whose names weren't correctly recorded) have contributed help or
advice on the development of the \acro{FAQ}: Donald Arseneau,
Rosemary Bailey, % lots of initial set of maths answers
Barbara Beeton, % one of first reviewers outside cttee
Karl Berry, % often provides comments & suggestions
Giuseppe Bilotta,
Charles Cameron,
Fran\c{c}ois Charette, % update of q-xetex
Damian Cugley,
Michael Dewey,
Michael Downes, % (RIP) on (ams)maths stuff
Jean-Pierre Drucbert, % corrected my interpretation of minitoc
Michael Ernst, % alert on confusing colloquialism
Thomas Esser,
Ulrike Fischer, % spotted boondoggle in q-tabcellalign
                % args like \section improvement; general typos
Anthony Goreham,
Norman Gray,
Eitan Gurari, % (RIP) comparative html translators
William Hammond, % lots of work on xml-related answers
John Harper, % patient help with q-robust ;-)
John Hammond, % corrections to q-protect
Troy Henderson, % metapost tutorials update
Hartmut Henkel,
Stephan Hennig, % text about vc in Q-RCS
John Hobby,
Morten H\textoslash gholm, % eagle eyes in search for problems
Berthold Horn, % lots of stuff on fonts
Ian Hutchinson, % comparative html translators
Werner Icking, % (RIP) answer on tex-music
William Ingram, % extension of transcinit
Alan Jeffrey, % another founding father
Regnor Jernsletten,
David Kastrup, % inter alia, suggested mention of lilypond
Oleg Katsitadze, % revision of q-eplain
Isaac Khabaza, % kindersley book
Ulrich Klauer, % pointed out twaddle in TeXpronounce
Markus Kohm, % help with functionality of Koma-script
Stefan Kottwitz % picked up text of q-wideflt
David Kraus, % help with tocbibind (spotted embarrassing typo :-} )
Ryszard Kubiak, % comment about q-driver
Simon Law,
Daniel Luecking,
Aditya Mahajan, % rewrite of q-context
Sanjoy Mahajan,
Andreas Matthias,
Brooks Moses, % editorial suggestion
Iain Murray, % alternative solution in q-hyperdupdest
Vilar Camara Neto, % explain breakurl pkg, suggest use of numprint
Dick Nickalls,
Ted Nieland,
Hans Nordhaug,
Pat Rau,
Heiko Oberdiek,
Piet van Oostrum,
Scott Pakin,
Oren Patashnik,
Manuel P\'egouri\'e-Gonnard, % improvement of q-luatex
Steve Peter, % comprehensive review, lots of typos etc
Sebastian Rahtz, % without whom there would be no...
Philip Ratcliffe, % help with a bibtex oddity
Chris Rowley, % founding father
Jos\'e Carlos Santos, % assiduous reader of new versions
Walter Schmidt,
Hans-Peter Schr\"ocker,
Joachim Schrod,
Maarten Sneep, % summary of c.t.t thread for outszwrng, inter alia
Axel Sommerfeldt, % suggested rewrite of q-hyperdupdest
Philipp Stephani, % xlation of komascript keyval stuff
James Szinger, % who responded on c.t.t to request for answer
Ulrik Vieth,
Mike Vulis,
Chris Walker, % revtex alert, ite suggestion (q-labelfig)
Peter Wilson, % several, incl functionality of memoir
Joseph Wright, % help with keyval
Rick Zaccone and
Reinhard Zierke.
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