The teTeX HOWTO: The Linux-teTeX Local Guide
Robert Kiesling
v3.7, 9 November 1998
This document covers the basic installation and usage of the teTeX TeX
and LaTeX implementation under the major U.S. Linux distributions, and
auxiliary packages like Ghostscript. Contents of the teTeX HOWTO: The
Linux-teTeX Local Guide are Copyright (C) 1997, 1998 by Robert A.
Kiesling. The exact terms of copying are given in the introduction
and the appendices. Registered trademarks are the property of their
respective owners. Please send all complaints, suggestions, errata,
and any miscellany to
[email protected], so I can keep this docu-
ment as complete and up to date as possible.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction.
1.1 Copyright.
1.2 Software described in this document.
1.2.1 teTeX.
1.2.2 Text editors.
1.2.3 (TT
1.2.4 Fonts.
2. Using teTeX.
2.1 Printing the documentation.
3. TeX commands.
3.1 Command overview.
3.2 Font commands.
3.3 Paragraph styles and dimensions.
3.3.1 Tolerances. (What are those black rectangles after every line?)
3.4 Page layout.
3.5 Page numbers, headers, and footers.
3.6 Titles and macros.
4. LaTeX commands.
4.1 Document structure.
4.2 Characters and type styles.
4.3 Margins and line spacing.
4.4 Document classes.
4.4.1 Articles and reports.
4.4.2 Letters.
5. LaTeX extension packages and other resources.
6. Mixing text and graphics with
6.1 What if my printer isn't supported?
7. Using Postscript fonts.
8. Appendix A: CTAN site list.
9. Appendix B: Installing the CTAN teTeX distribution.
9.1 Installing the binary distribution.
9.1.1 Minimal installation.
9.1.2 Complete installation.
9.2 Base system configuration.
9.3 Installing the CTAN source distribution.
9.4 Post-installation configuration details.
10. Appendix C: Distribution and Copyright.
10.1 Distribution.
10.2 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
10.3 How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
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1. Introduction.
1.1. Copyright.
The teTeX-HOWTO is copyright (C) 1997, 1998 by Robert Kiesling.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
manual provided that the copyright notice and this permission notice
are preserved on all copies.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided also that
the sections entitled, ``Distribution,'' and, ``GNU General Public
License,'' are included exactly as in the original, and provided that
the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
permission notice identical to this one.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified
versions. except that the sections entitled, ``Distribution,'' and,
``GNU General Public License,'' may be included in a translation
approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in the original
English. Please refer to Section ``Distribution and Copyright'' for
terms of copying.
1.2. Software described in this document.
TeX handles only the formatting part of the document preparation.
Generating output from TeX is like compiling source code into object
code, which still needs to be linked. You prepare an input file with
a text editor----what most people think of as ``word processing''---
and format the input file document with TeX to produce a device-
independent output file, called a .dvi file.
You also need a program or two to translate TeX's .dvi output for your
screen and printer. These programs are collectively known as
``dviware.'' For example, TeX itself only makes requests for fonts.
It is up to the .dvi output translator to provide the actual font for
the output regardless of whether the medium is a video screen or
paper. This extra step may seem overly complicated, but the
abstraction allows documents to display the same on different devices
with little or no change to the original document.
1.2.1. teTeX.
TeX is implemented for practically every serious computer system in
the world---and quite a few ``non-serious'' ones---so implementors
must provide the installation facilities for all of them. This
accounts in part for teTeX's complexity, in addition to the inherent
complexity of any TeX installation. It also accounts for the fact
that installing the system yourself is a significant task, and unless
you are already familiar with TeX, it is easy to get lost in the
numerous executable programs, TeX files, documentation, and fonts.
Fortunately, teTeX is part of the GNU/Linux distribution. You can
install the package much more easily using GNU/Linux installation
tools. You may already have teTeX installed on your system. If so,
you can skip ahead to Section ``Using teTeX''.
However, if you want to install the package, the archives necessary
for a workable teTeX installation are on the CTAN archive network.
There is a list of these sites in Section ``CTAN site list''.
CTAN is the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network, a series of anonymous
FTP sites that archive TeX programs, macros, fonts, and documentation.
In the course of using TeX you'll probably become familiar with at
least one CTAN site. In this document, a pathname like
~CTAN/contrib/pstricks means ``look in the directory contrib/pstricks
of your nearest CTAN site.''
The installation of the generic teTeX distribution described in
Section ``Installing the CTAN teTeX distribution'' concentrates on the
Intel versions of Linux. Installing teTeX on other hardware should
require only substituting the appropriate executable program archive
in the installation process.
In addition to the executable programs, the distribution includes all
of the TeX and LaTeX package, metafont and its sources, bibtex,
makeindex, and all of the documentation... more than 4 megabytes'
worth. The documentation covers everything you will forseeably need
to know to get started. So, you should install all of the documents.
Not only will you eventually read them, the documents themselves
provide many examples of ``live'' TeX and LaTeX code.
TeX was written by Professor Donald Knuth of Stanford University. It
is a lower-level typesetting language for all of the higher-level
packages like LaTeX. Essentially, LaTeX is a set of TeX macros that
provide convenient, predefined document formats for end users. If you
like the formats provided by LaTeX, you may never need to learn bare-
bones TeX programming. The difference between the two languages is
like the difference between assembly language and C. You can have the
speed and flexibility of TeX, or the convenience of LaTeX.
By the way, the letters of the word ``TeX'' are Greek, tau-epsilon-
chi. It is not a fraternity, but the root of the Greek word, techne,
which means art and/or science. ``TeX'' is not pronounced like the
first syllable in ``Texas.'' The chi has no English equivalent, but
TeX is generally pronounced so that it rhymes with ``yecch,'' to use
Professor Knuth's example from The TeXBook, which is one of the
standard TeX references. When writing, ``TeX,'' on character devices,
always use the standard capitalization, or the \TeX{} macro in
typesetting.
1.2.2. Text editors.
Any of the editors that work under Linux---jed, joe, jove, vi, vim,
stevie, Emacs, and microemacs---will work to prepare a TeX input file,
as long as the editor reads and writes plain-vanilla ASCII text. My
preference is GNU Emacs. There are several reasons for this:
o You can format, preview and print documents with Emacs's TeX and
LaTeX modes.
o Emacs can automatically insert TeX-style, ``curly quotes,'' as you
type, rather than the "ASCII-vanilla" kind.
o Emacs has integrated support for Texinfo, a hypertext documentation
system.
o Emacs is widely supported. Versions 19.34 and later, for example,
are included in the major U.S. Linux distributions. The most
recent version from the GNU archives is 20.3.
o Emacs does everything except butter the toast in the morning.
o Emacs is free.
1.2.3. dvips .
Tomas Rokicki's dvips generates Postscript from a .dvi file. In
addition, it runs Metafont if necessary to generate the bit mapped
fonts it needs or uses Postscript fonts for the output. It can also
crop and resize pages and perform graphics translations from
instructions in a TeX or LaTeX file,
The dvips program is part of the teTeX distribution. It is discussed
fully in Section ``Mixing text and graphics with <tt>dvips</tt>''
1.2.4. Fonts.
Much of TeX's, and therefore LaTeX's, complexity, arises from its
implementation of various font systems, and the way these fonts are
specified. A major improvement of LaTeX 2e over its predecessor was
the way users specify fonts, the former New Font Selection Scheme.
They're discussed in Section ``Characters and type styles'', Section
``TeX Font Commands'', and Section ``Using Postscript fonts''.)
teTeX comes distributed with about a dozen standard fonts preloaded,
which is enough to get you started. Also provided are the font
metrics descriptions, in .tfm (TeX font metric) files. To generate
the other fonts that you need, it is simply a matter of installing the
metafont sources. teTeX's .dvi utilities will invoke metafont
automatically and generate the Computer Modern fonts you need.
2. Using teTeX.
Theoretically, at least, everything is installed correctly and is
ready to run. teTeX is a very large software package. As with any
complex software package, you'll want to start by learning teTeX
slowly, instead of being overwhelmed by its complexity.
At the same time, we want the software to do something useful. So
instead of watching TeX typeset
``Hello, World!''
as Professor Knuth suggests, we'll produce a couple of teTeX's own
documents in order to test it.
2.1. Printing the documentation.
You should be logged in as root the first few times you run teTeX. If
you aren't, Metafont may not be able to create the necessary
directories for its fonts. The texconfig program includes an option
to make the font directories world-writable, but if you're working on
a multi-user system, security considerations may make this option
impractical or undesirable.
In either instance, if you don't have the appropriate permissions to
write to the directories where the fonts are stored, Metafont will
complain loudly because it can't make the directories. You won't see
any output because you have a bunch of zero-length font characters.
This is no problem. Simply log out, re-login as root, and repeat the
offending operation.
The nice thing about teTeX is that, if you blow it, no real harm is
done. It's not like a compiler, where, say, you will trash the root
partition if a pointer goes astray. What, you haven't read the teTeX
manual yet? Of course you haven't. It's still in the distribution,
in source code form, waiting to be output.
So, without further delay, you will want to read the teTeX manual.
It's located in the directory
/usr/lib/teTeX/texmf/doc/tetex.
The LaTeX source for the manual is called TETEXDOC.tex. (The .tex
extension is used for both TeX and LaTeX files. Some editors, like
Emacs, can tell the difference.) There is also a file TETEXDOC.dvi
included with the distribution, which you might want to keep in a safe
place---say, another directory ---in case you want to test your .dvi
drivers later. With that out of the way, type
latex TETEXDOC.tex
LaTeX will print several warnings. The first,
LaTeX Warning: Label(s) may have changed. Rerun to get the
cross-references right.
is standard. It's common to build a document's Table of Contents by
LaTeXing the document twice. So, repeat the command. The other warn-
ings can be safely ignored. They simply are informing you that some
of the FTP paths mentioned in the documentation are too wide for their
alloted spaces. Sections ``Paragraph styles and dimensions'' and
``Tolerances'' describe horizontal spacing in more detail.
teTeX will have generated several files from TETEXDOC.tex. The one
that we're interested in is TETEXDOC.dvi. This is the device-
independent output which you can send either to the screen or the
printer. If you're running teTeX under the X Windows System, you can
preview the document with xdvi.
For the present, let's assume that you have a HP LaserJet II. You
would give the command
dvilj2 TETEXDOC.dvi
which writes a PCL output file from TETEXDOC.dvi, including soft fonts
which will be downloaded to the LaserJet. This is not a feature of
TeX or LaTeX, but a feature provided by dvilj2. Other .dvi drivers
provide features that are relevant to the devices they support.
dvilj2 tries to fill the font requests which were made in the original
LaTeX document with the the closest equivalents available on the sys-
tem. In the case of a plain text document like TETEXDOC.tex, there
isn't much difficulty. All of the fonts requested by TETEXDOC.tex
will be generated by metafont, which is automatically invoked by
dvilj2, if the fonts aren't already present. (If you're running
dvilj2 for the first time, the program may need to generate all of the
fonts.) There are several options that control font generation via
dvilj2. They're outlined in the manual page. At this point, you
shouldn't need to operate metafont directly. If you do, then some-
thing has gone awry with your installation. All of the .dvi drivers
will invoke metafont directly via the kpathsea path-searching
library---the discussion of which is beyond the scope of this docu-
ment---and you don't need to do any more work with metafont for the
present---all of the metafont sources for the Computer Modern font
library are provided.
You can print TETEXDOC.lj with the command
lpr TETEXDOC.lj
You may also need to install a printer filter that understands PCL.
The nine-page teTeX Guide provides some useful information for further
configuring your system, some of which I have mentioned, much that
this document doesn't cover.
Some of the information in the next section I haven't been able to
test, because I have a non-Postscript HP Deskjet 400 color ink jet
printer connected to the computer's parallel port. However, not
owning a Postscript printer is no barrier to printing text and
graphics from your text documents. Ghostscript is available in most
Linux distributions and it could already be installed on your system.
3. TeX commands.
Preparing documents for TeX typesetting is easy. Make sure there's a
blank line between the paragraphs of a plain text file, and run file
through the TeX program with the command
tex your_text_file
The result will be a file of the same base name and the extension
.dvi. TeX formats the text in 10-point, Computer Modern Roman, sin-
gle-spaced, with justified left and right margins. If you receive
error messages from special characters like dollar signs, escape them
with a backslash character, \, and run TeX on the file again. You
should be able to process the resulting file with the .dvi file trans-
lator of your choice (see above) to get printed output.
One peculiarity of TeX input is that you must use opening and closing
quotes, which are denoted in the input file with the grave accent and
single quote characters. Emacs' TeX mode does this for you
automatically.
"These are ASCII-type quotes."
``These are `TeX-style' quotes.''
3.1. Command overview.
Commands in TeX start with a backslash (``\''). For example, the
command to change the spacing between lines is
\baselineskip=24pt
The baseline is the bottom of the characters on a line, not counting
descenders. The distance between the baseline of one line and the
next is the \baselineskip, and is assigned a value of 24 points.
Measurements or dimensions in TeX are often given in the following
units:
pt % Point 1/72 in.
pc % Pica: 12 pt.
in % Inch: 72.27 pt.
cm % Centimeter: 2.54 cm = 1 in.
mm % Millimeter: 10 mm = 1 cm.
Some commands do not take assignments. For example:
\smallskip % Approximately 3 pt.
\medskip % Two \smallskips.
\bigskip % Two \medskips.
A \smallskip inserts a 3 pt. vertical space in the document. The
measurements are approximate because TeX needs to adjust the
dimensions for page breaks, section headings, and other units of
vertical space. This is true for horizontal spacing as well.
\hsize=6.5in
This command sets the line length to a width of 6.5 inches. TeX tries
to fill the line by adjusting the spacing between words, and some let-
ters. If TeX cannot fill a line to within its tolerances, it produces
a warning message, and adjusts the horizontal spacing within the line
as best it can. Formatting tolerances are discussed in Section ``Tol-
erances''.
There are many other commands that specify horizontal and vertical
dimensions and tolerances, and the most commonly use commands are
described below.
3.2. Font commands.
In TeX, the default font is 10 pt. Computer Modern Roman. To specify
a typeface, like italic, bold, or monospaced, use the following
commands.
\rm % Roman (the default).
\it % Italics.
\bf % Bold.
\tt % Monospaced (teletype).
\sl % Oblique (slanted).
The commands change the typeface where they appear in the text, as in
this example.
This text is Roman, \it and this text is italic. \bf This text is
bold, and \rm this text is in Roman again.
To specify a font for your document, use the\font command.
\font\romantwelve=cmr12
This creates the font command \romantwelve, which, when used in the
text, changes the font to Computer Modern Roman, 12 point.
\romantwelve
This is the Computer Modern Roman font at 12 points.
For information about the fonts in the teTeX distribution look at the
file:
/usr/lib/teTeX/texmf/doc/fonts/fontname/fontname.dvi
If you want to print a sample of a font, TeX the file
/usr/lib/teTeX/texmf/tex/plain/base/fontchart.tex
and fill in the name of the font you want to print at the prompt.
You can also change the size of a font to get different effects. Font
magnification is exponential, and specified with the scaled \magstep
command, which is placed after the font specification.
\font\sfmedium=cmss12 scaled \magstep 1
This command will give you a sans serif font that is 120 percent the
size of the 12-point Computer Modern sans serif font. Fonts can be
magnified in steps from 0 to 5. Each step provides and additional 120
percent magnification.
3.3. Paragraph styles and dimensions.
As mentioned above, TeX typesets text in 10-point Computer Modern
Roman by default. The length of a line is the value of \hsize, which
defaults to 6.5 in. If you want to change the value of \hsize to 5.5
in. for example, use this command.
\hsize=5.5in
In TeX a dimension is an adjustable unit of length, either horizontal
or vertical. The amount by which a dimension can be increased or
decreased can be specified in its definition. Closely related to a
dimension is a skip, which is a dimension that is placed in one of
TeX's internal registers. Skips are defined with the \newskip
command. The \smallskip dimension, as defined by TeX is:
\newskip\smallskipamount \smallskipamount=3pt plus 1pt minus 1pt
The \smallskip command is shorthand for:
\vskip\smallskipamount
There are a number of dimensions that control the page layout. They
are summarized in Section ``Page layout''.
TeX formats paragraphs with justified left and right margins. If you
want the text to be left justified only, use this command:
\raggedright
To typeset a line that is justified to the right margin, use the
\rightline command:
\rightline{This is the line to be typeset.}
The \line command typesets the text of its argument to fill the entire
line.
\line{This text will be spaced to fit the entire line.}
The \hfil command adds space to fill out the line where it occurs.
So, for example, the \rightline command is equivalent to:
\line{\hfilThis line will be right justified.}
To typeset a line that is centered, use the \centerline command.
\centerline{This is the line to be centered.}
To change the left margin, set the value of \hoffset, as in this
example:
\hoffset=1.5in
The \parindent command specifies the amount that the first line of
every paragraph is indented.
\parindent=.5in
Two other dimensions, \leftskip and \rightskip, will indent the right
and left margins, respectively, of the paragraphs that come after
them.
\leftskip=.5in
\rightskip=.5in
The control word \narrower is equivalent to:
\leftskip=\parindent
\rightskip=\parindent
That is, \narrower narrows the paragraph margins by the value of
\parindent
As mentioned in the previous section, the \baselineskip specifies the
distance between lines. The default is 12 pt. To approximate double-
spaced text, use the following command.
\baselineskip=\baselineskip*1.6
The \parskip command specifies the distance in addition to
\baselineskip between paragraphs. By default, no extra space is
added, but the distance between paragraphs can stretch as much as 1
pt. to fill the page correctly. To put a blank line between
paragraphs, use this command:
\parskip=\baselineskip
3.3.1. Tolerances. (What are those black rectangles after every
line?)
TeX normally formats text to strict tolerances. If, for some reason,
text cannot be formatted to within those tolerances, TeX produces a
warning message and formats the text the best it can. If the text
must be stretched too much to fit the line, TeX warns you that the
\hbox is underfull. Text that must be squeezed to fit in the line
produces an overfull \hbox warning.
For each overfull \hbox, TeX places a slug, a black rectangle, after
the line. The slug indicates that the line could not be formatted to
within the specifications set by the \hbadness parameter.
The fit of the text within its specified dimensions is measured by its
badness, which is a number between 0 and 10000. A badness of 0 is a
perfect fit, and a badness of 10000 means that the line probably will
never fit. The default value of \hbadness is 1000. If you set
\hbadness to 10000, TeX does not report underfull lines.
Sometimes TeX allows a line to extend past the right margin. This is
an aesthetic decision on the part of TeX's author. The amount is
determined by the \hfuzz parameter, which defaults to 0.1 pt. If the
text does not fit within the line, the \tolerance parameter determines
how TeX will handle the overfull \hbox. The default value of
\tolerance is 200. Setting \tolerance to 1000 suppresses overfull
\hbox warnings and the printing of slugs.
3.4. Page layout.
In addition to the left margin and line length dimensions that are
described in the previous section, TeX also lets you specify top and
bottom margins, and vertical spacing.
Like the \hsize and \hoffset dimensions described in the previous
section, TeX also provides the \vsize and \voffset commands. The
default for \vsize is 8.9 in., and \voffset defaults to 0.
Normally, teTeX places the beginning of the first line of text 1 in.
below the top of the paper and 1 in. from the left edge. You can
start the text closer to the top of the page with the command:
\voffset=-0.5in
If you want to add vertical space in a document, the commands
\smallskip, \medskip, and \bigskip will add approximately 3, 6, and 12
points of blank vertical space. These measurements are approximate;
TeX will adjust them by as much as 1 pt. so the page is filled
correctly.
The \vfill command adds an adjustable vertical space between
paragraphs on a page. It is infinitely stretchable, so it will add
vertical space to fill as much of the rest of the page as possible.
If you want to specify a dimension, use \vskip as in:
\vskip 10pt
The commands \hss and \vss are similar to \hfil and \vfill, but they
provide dimensions that are infinitely shrinkable as well as
infinitely stretchable.
The \vskip and \vfill commands produce flexible lengths. They do not
add space where no text exists; for example, at the top of a page.
Use \vglue if you want to add an absolute space.
TeX fills the \vsize dimension with as much text as possible before it
starts a new page. To force a page break, use the \vfill \eject
sequence. If \vfill is not used, the text before the \break will be
spaced to fill the page.
If you want TeX to be more flexible about its vertical page sizing,
place the \raggedbottom command in your document. TeX will then
adjust the bottom margin of each page slightly to make vertical
spacing more consistent.
3.5. Page numbers, headers, and footers.
teTeX by default places the page number at the bottom center of the
page. If you want to change the location and style of the page
number, you can specify alternate headers and footers by changing
definitions of \headline and \footline. The default value for
\footline contains the \folio command, which prints the page number.
The default value for \headline is \hfil, so a blank line is printed.
The \pageno command is a synonym for TeX's internal page counter. You
can change the page number by changing the value of \pageno. If
\pageno is negative, the numbers are printed as Roman numerals.
\pageno=10
\pageno=-1
The command \nopagenumbers is shorthand for:
\headline={\hfil}
\footline={\hfil}
The default footline also contains the font command \tenrm, which sets
the page number's font to 10-point Roman. If you want to print the
page number in 12-point Roman, for example, you would first define a
12-point Roman font, and use that in the definition of \footline.
Font commands are discussed in Section ``Font commands''.
\font\twelvrm=cmr12
\footline={\hss\twelvrm\folio\hss}
You can put a rule, a horizontal line, at the top of each page by
redefining \headline as:
\headline={\hrulefill}
To specify different headers for even and odd pages use the
\ifoddcommand, which has the form:
\ifodd[condition][true-action]\else[false-action
An example \headline that uses different headers for even and odd
pages would be:
\headline={\ifodd\pageno odd-page-header \else even-page-header}
The \ifodd statement uses the first argument if the page number is
odd, and the second argument otherwise.
3.6. Titles and macros.
TeX provides only the \beginsection macro for section headings. It
leaves a space above its argument, prints the text of the heading in
bold type, adds a \smallskip after the text of the heading, and starts
the next paragraph with no indent.
The LaTeX chapter and section commands described below add section
numbering, and will print the section names and numbers in the page
headings, and automatically add the sections to the Table of Contents.
In plain TeX, you must write these functions yourself. The \def
command allows you to define new commands. Suppose you want to print
a chapter title. First you define the font that you want to use. A
large, sans serif font for chapter titles would be defined like this:
\font\chapterfontsans=cmss12 scaled \magstep 4
You can use the \chapterfontsans command anywhere you want to switch
to this font, which is approximately 24 points in height. However, in
this example, it will be used primarily in the command \chaptertitle-
sans. Here is its definition:
\def\chaptertitlesans#1{\hbox{}\bigskip\bigskip
\noindent{\leftline{\chapterfontsans#1}}
\par\bigskip\bigskip\noindent}
The first line, \hbox{}\bigskip, anchors a 12-point space at the top
of the page by placing an empty \hbox{} there. The line with the
chapter title is not indented, nor is the paragraph which immediately
follows it. If you place a blank line between the \sschaptertitle
macro and the next paragraph, the final \noindent applies to the blank
line, not the text of the following paragraph. To format correctly,
use the \sschaptertitle as in this example:
The #1 statement in the definition is replaced by the first argument
to \chaptertitlesans; that is, the title of the chapter. Parameters
TeX definitions are declared with #1, #2, #3, and so on. An example
usage of \chaptertitlesans would be:
\chaptertitlesans{Chapter 1}
This is the starting text of the first paragraph of the chapter.
The paragraph will not be indented. The chapter's title is
"Chapter 1."
4. LaTeX commands.
4.1. Document structure.
Documents formatted for LaTeX have a few more rules, but with complex
documents, LaTeX can greatly simplify the formatting process.
Essentially, LaTeX is a document markup language which tries to
separate the output style from the document's logical content. For
example, formatting a section heading with TeX would require
specifying 36 points of white space above the heading, then the
heading itself set in bold, 24-point type, then copying the heading
text and page number to the Table of Contents, then leaving 24 points
of white space after the heading. By contrast, LaTeX has the
\section{} command, which does all of the work for you. If you need
to change the format of the section headings throughout your document,
you can change the definition of \section{} instead of the text in the
document. You can see where this would save hours of reformatting for
documents of more than a dozen pages in length.
All LaTeX documents have three sections: a preamble, the body text,
and a postamble. These terms are standard jargon and are widely used
by TeXperts.
The preamble, at a minimum, specifies the type of document to be
produced---the document class---and a statement which signals the
beginning of the document's body text. For example:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
The document's postamble is usually very simple. Except in special-
ized cases, it contains only the statement:
\end{document}
Note the \begin{document} and \end{document} pairing. In LaTeX, this
is called an environment. All text must appear within an environment,
and many commands are effective only in the environments in which
they're called. The document environment is the only instance where
LaTeX enforces this convention, however. That is, it's the only envi-
ronment that is required in a document. (An exception is letter
class, which also requires you to declare \begin{letter} and
\end{letter}. See the section ``Letters''.) However, many formatting
features are specified as environments. They're described in the fol-
lowing sections.
The document classes can be called with arguments. For example,
instead of the default, 10-point type used as the base point size, as
in the previous example, we could have specified
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
to produce the document using 12 points as the base point size. The
document class, article, makes the necessary adjustments.
There are a few document classes which are commonly used. They're
described below. The report class is similar to article class, but
produces a title page and starts each section on a new page. The
letter class includes special definitions for addresses, salutations,
and closings, a few of which are described below.
You can include canned LaTeX code, commonly known as a package, with
the \usepackage{} command.
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
The command above would include the LaTeX style file fancyhdr.sty from
one of the TEXINPUTS directories, which you and teTeX specified during
installation and setup processes.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\begin{document}
Note that the \usepackage{} declarations are given before the
\begin{document} statement; that is, in the document preamble.
fancyhdr.sty extends the \pagestyle{} command so that you can create
custom headers and footers. Most LaTeX document classes provide
headers and footers of the following standard page styles:
\pagestyle{plain} % default pages style -- page number centered at
% the bottom of the page.
\pagestyle{empty} % no headers or footers
\pagestyle{headings} % print section number and page number at the
% top of the page.
\pagestyle{myheadings} % print custom information in the page heading.
Everything on a line to the right of the percent sign is a comment.
The \pagestyle{} command doesn't take effect until the following page.
To change the headers and footers on the current page, use the command
\thispagestyle{the_pagestyle}
4.2. Characters and type styles.
Character styles are partially a function of the fonts specified in
the document. However, bold and italic character emphasis should be
available for every font present on the system. Underlining, too, can
be used, though its formatting presents special problems. See section
``LaTeX extension packages and other resources'', below.
You can specify text to be emphasized in several ways. The most
portable is the \em command. All text within its scope is italicized
by default. For example:
This word will be {\em emphasized.}
If you have italicized text that runs into text which is not itali-
cized, you can specify an italic correction factor to be used. The
command for this is \/; that is, a backslash and a forward slash.
This example {\em will\/} print correctly.
This example will {\em not} print correctly.
Slightly less portable, but still acceptable in situations where
they're used singly, are the commands \it, \bf, and \tt, which specify
that the characters within their scope be printed using italic, bold,
and monospaced (teletype) typefaces, respectively.
{\tt This text will be printed monospaced,}
{\it this text will be italic,} and
{\bf this text will be bold\dots} all in one paragraph.
The command \dots prints a series of three periods for ellipses, which
will not break across a line.
The most recent version of LaTeX, which is what you have, includes
commands which account for instances where one emphasis command would
supersede another.
This is {\it not {\bf bold italic!}}
What happens is that teTeX formats the text with the italic typeface
until it encounters the \bf command, at which point it switches to
boldface type.
To get around this, the NFSS scheme of selecting font shapes requires
three parameters for each typeface: shape, series, and family. Not
all font sets will include all of these styles. LaTeX will print a
warning, however, if it needs to substitute another font.
You can specify the following font shapes:
\textup{text} % upright shape (the default)
\textit{text} % italic
\textsl{text} % slanted
\textsc{text} % small caps
These are the two series that most fonts have:
\textmd{text} % medium series (the default)
\textbf{text} % boldface series.
There are generally three families of type available.
\textrm{text} % Roman (the default)
\textsf{text} % sans serif
\texttt{text} % typewriter (monospaced, Courier-like)
Setting font styles using these parameters, you can combine effects.
\texttt{\textit{This example likely will result in a font
substitution, because many fonts don't include a typewriter italic
typeface.}}
The font family defaults to Computer Modern, which is a bit-mapped
font. Other font families are usually Postscript-format Type 1 fonts.
See section ``Using PostScript fonts'' for details on how to specify
them.
There are also many forms of accents and special characters which are
available for typesetting. This is only a few of them. (Try
typesetting these on your own printer.)
\'{o} \`{e} \^{o} \"{u} \={o} \c{c} `? `!
\copyright \pounds \dag
Finally, there are characters which are used as meta- or escape char-
acters in TeX and LaTeX. One of them, the dollar sign, is mentioned
above. The complete set of meta characters, which need to be escaped
with a backslash to be used literally, is:
# $ % & _ { }
There are also different alphabets available, like Greek and Cyrillic.
LaTeX provides many facilities for setting non-English text, which are
covered by some of the other references mentioned here
4.3. Margins and line spacing.
Changing margins in a TeX or LaTeX document is not a straightforward
task. A lot depends on the relative indent of the text you're trying
to adjust the margin for. The placement of the margin-changing
command is also significant.
For document-wide changes to LaTeX documents, the \evensidemargin and
\oddsidemargin commands are available. They affect the left-hand
margins of the even-numbered and odd-numbered pages, respectively.
For example,
\evensidemargin=1in
\oddsidemargin=1in
adds on inch to the left-hand margin of the even and odd pages in
addition to the standard one-inch, left-hand margin. These commands
affect the entire document and will shift the entire body of the text
right and left across a page, regardless of any local indent, so
they're safe to use with LaTeX environments like verse and list.
Below is a set of margin-changing macros which I wrote. They have a
different effect than the commands mentioned above. Because they use
plain TeX commands, they're not guaranteed to honor the margins of any
LaTeX environments which may be in effect, but you can place them
anywhere in a document and change the margins from that point on.
%% margins.sty -- v. 0.1 by Robert Kiesling
%% Copies of this code may be freely distributed in verbatim form.
%%
%% Some elementary plain TeX margin-changing commands. Lengths are
%% in inches:
%% \leftmargin{1} %% sets the document's left margin in 1 inch.
%% \leftindent{1} %% sets the following paragraphs' indent in
%% 1 inch.
%% \rightindent{1} %% sets the following paragraphs' right margins
%% %% in 1 inch.
%% \llength{3} %% sets the following lines' lengths to 3 inches.
%%
\message{Margins macros...}
\def\lmargin#1{\hoffset = #1 in}
\def\lindent#1{\leftskip = #1 in}
\def\rindent#1{\rightskip = #1 in}
\def\llength#1{\hsize = #1 in}
%%
%% (End of margins macros.}
Place this code in a file called margins.sty in your local $TEXINPUTS
directory. The commands are explained in the commented section of the
file. To include them in a document, use the command
\usepackage{margins}
in the document preamble.
While we're on the subject, if you don't want the right margin to be
justified, which is the default, you can tell LaTeX to use ragged
right margins by giving the command:
\raggedright
Setting line spacing also has its complexities.
The baselineskip measurement is the distance between lines of text.
It is given as an absolute measurement. For example,
\baselineskip=24pt
or even better:
\setlength{\baselineskip}{24pt}
The difference between the two forms is that setlength will respect
any scoping rules that may be in effect when you use the command.
The problem with using baselineskip is that it also affects the
distance between section headings, footnotes, and the like. You need
to take care that baselineskip is correct for whatever text elements
you're formatting. There are, however, LaTeX macro packages, like
setspace.sty, which will help you in these circumstances. See section
``LaTeX extension packages and other resources''.
4.4. Document classes.
LaTeX provides document classes which provide standardized formats for
documents. They provide environments to format lists, quotations,
footnotes, and other text elements. Commonly used document classes
are covered in the following sections.
4.4.1. Articles and reports.
As mentioned above, the article class and the report class are
similar. The main differences are that the report class creates a
title page by default and begins each section on a new page. Mostly,
though, the two document classes are similar.
To create titles, abstracts, and bylines in these document classes,
you can type, for example,
\title{The Breeding Habits of Cacti}
\author{John Q. Public}
\abstract{Description of how common desert cacti search
for appropriate watering holes to perform their breeding
rituals.}
in the document preamble. Then, the command
\maketitle
given at the start of the text, will generate either a title page in
the report class, or the title and abstract at the top of the first
page, in the article class.
Sections can be defined with commands that include the following:
\section
\subsection
\subsubsection
These commands will produce the standard, numbered sections used in
technical documents. For unnumbered sections, use
\section*
\subsection*
\subsubsection*
and so on.
LaTeX provides many environments for formatting displayed material.
You can include quoted text with the quotation environment.
\begin{quotation}
Start of paragraph to be quoted...
... end of paragraph.
\end{quotation}
For shorter quotes, you can use the quote environment.
To format verse, use the verse environment.
\begin{verse}
Because I could not stop for death\\
He kindly stopped for me
\end{verse}
Notice that you must use the double backslashes to break lines in the
correct places. Otherwise, LaTeX fills the lines in a verse environ-
ment, just like any other environment.
Lists come in several flavors. To format a bulleted list, the list
environment is used:
\begin{list}
\item
This is the first item of the list.
\item
This is the second item of the list...
\item
... and so on.
\end{list}
A numbered list uses the enumerate environment:
\begin{enumerate}
\item
Item No. 1.
\item
Item No. 2.
\item
\dots
\end{enumerate}
A descriptive list uses the description environment.
\begin{description}
\item{Oven} Dirty, needs new burner.
\item{Refrigerator} Dirty. Sorry.
\item{Sink and drainboard} Stained, drippy, cold water faucet.
\end{description}
4.4.2. Letters.
The letter class uses special definitions to format business letters.
The letter environment takes one argument, the address of the letter's
addressee. The address command, which must appear in the document
preamble, defines the return address. The signature command defines
the sender's name as it appears after the closing.
The LaTeX source of a simple business letter might look like this.
\documentclass[12pt]{letter}
\signature{John Q. Public}
\address{123 Main St.\\Los Angeles, CA. 96005\\Tel: 123/456-7890}
\begin{document}
\begin{letter}{ACME Brick Co.\\100 Ash St.\\San Diego, CA 96403}
\opening{Dear Sir/Madam:}
With regard to one of your bricks that I found on my living room
carpet surrounded by shards of my broken front window...
(Remainder of the body of the letter.)
\closing{Sincerely,}
\end{letter}
\end{document}
Note that the addresses include double backslashes, which specify
where the line breaks should occur.
5. LaTeX extension packages and other resources.
We mentioned above that using underlining as a form of text emphasis
presents special problems. Actually, TeX has no problem underlining
text, because it is a convention of mathematical typesetting. In
LaTeX, you can underline words with the command:
\underline{text to be underlined}
The problem is that underlining will not break across lines, and, in
some circumstances, underlining can be uneven. However, there is a
LaTeX macro package, ready-made, that makes underlining the default
mode of text emphasis. It's called ulem.sty, and is one of the many
contributed LaTeX packages that are freely available via the Internet.
To use ulem.sty, include the command:
\usepackage{ulem}
in the document preamble.
The packages which are available for LaTeX include:
ifthen
Include conditional statements in your documents.
initials
Defines a font for initial dropped capitals.
sanskrit
Font and preprocessor for producing documents in Sanskrit.
recipe
A LaTeX2e class to typeset recipes.
refman
Variant report and article styles.
To make the path given in the Catalogue into a fully-qualified URL,
concatenate the path to the host name URL and top-level path of the
CTAN archive you wish to contact. For example, the top-level CTAN
directory of the site ftp.tex.ac.uk is ctan/tex-archive. The complete
URL of the directory of the refman package would be:
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/ctan/tex-archive/ +
macros/latex/contrib/supported/refman =
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/ctan/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/refman/
Some packages have more than one file, so only the path to the pack-
age's directory is given.
When you have the URL in hand, you can retrieve the package from one
of the CTAN archive sites listed in section ``Appendix A''. You can
download a complete list of the archive's contents as the file
FILES.byname, in the archive's top-level directory. You can also
search the archive on line for a keyword with the ftp command
quote site index <keyword>
6. Mixing text and graphics with dvips .
In general, this section applies to any TeX or LaTeX document which
mixes text and graphics. teTeX, like most other TeX distributions, is
configured to request Computer Modern fonts by default. When printing
documents with Type 1 scalable fonts or graphics, font and graphics
imaging is the job of dvips. dvips can use either Computer Modern bit
mapped fonts or Type 1 scalable fonts, or any combination of the two.
First, let's concentrate on printing and previewing some graphics.
You will probably want to follow this procedure any time a LaTeX
source document has the statement
\includepackage{graphics}
in the document preamble. This statement tells LaTeX to include the
text of the graphics.sty package in the source document. There are
other commands to perform graphics operations, and the statements in
plain-TeX documents may not clue you in whether you need to use dvips.
The difference will be apparent in the output, though, when the docu-
ment is printed with missing figures and other graphics.
So, for now, we'll concentrate on printing documents which use the
LaTeX graphics.sty package. You might want to take a look at the
original TeX input. It isn't included in the teTeX distribution, but
it is available at
~CTAN/macros/latex/packages/graphics/grfguide.tex.
What the teTeX distribution does include is the .dvi output file, and
it is already TeXed for you. There is a reason for this, and it has
to do with the necessity of including Type 1 fonts in the output in
order for the document to print properly. If you want to LaTeX
grfguide.tex, see the next section. For now, however, we'll work on
getting usable output using dvips.
The file grfguide.dvi is located in the directory
texmf/doc/latex/graphics
The first step in outputting grfguide.dvi is to translate it to
Postscript. The program dvips is used for this. It does just exactly
what its name implies. There are many options available for invoking
dvips, but the simplest (nearly) form is
dvips -f -r <grfguide.dvi >grfguide.ps
The -f command switch tells dvips to operate as a filter, reading from
standard input and writing to standard output. dvips output can be
configured so its output defaults to lpr.
If you can print Postscript directly to your printer via lpr, you can
simply type
dvips -r grfguide.dvi
The -r option tells dvips to output the pages in reverse order so they
stack correctly when they exit a printer. Use it or not, as appropri-
ate for your output device.
Depending on whether you still have the fonts that dvilj2 generated
from the last document, dvips and metafont may or may not need to
create new fonts needed by grfguide.dvi. Eventually, though, dvips
will output a list of the pages translated to Postscript, and you will
have your Postscript output ready to be rendered on whatever output
device you have available.
If you're lucky (and rich), then you have a Postscript-capable printer
already and will be able to print grfguide.ps directly. You can
either spool the output to the printer using lpr. If for some reason
your printer software doesn't work right with Postscript files, you
can, in a pinch, simply dump the file to printer, with
cat grfguide.ps >/dev/lp0
or whichever port your printer is attached to, though this is not rec-
ommended for everyday use.
If you want or need to invoke Ghostscript manually, this is the
standard procedure for its operation. The first thing you want to do
is invoke Ghostscript to view its command line arguments, like this:
gs -help | less
You'll see a list of supported output devices and sundry other com-
mands. Pick the output device which most nearly matches your printer.
I generally produce black-and-white text and use the cdjmono driver,
which drives a color Deskjet in monochrome (black and white) mode.
The command line I would use is:
gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=cdjmono -sOutputFile=/tmp/gs.out grfguide.ps -c quit
This will produce my HP-compatible output in the /tmp directory. It's
a good idea to use a directory like /tmp, because gs can be particular
about access permissions, and you can't (and shouldn't) always count
on being logged in as root to perform these steps. Now you can print
the file:
lpr /tmp/gs.out
Obviously, this can all go into a shell script. On my system, I have
two simple scripts written, pv and pr, which simply outputs the
Postscript file either to the display or the printer. Screen preview-
ing is possible without X, but it's far from ideal. So, it's defi-
nitely worth the effort to install XFree86 to view the output on the
screen..
The order of commands in a gs command line is significant, because
some of the options tell Ghostscript to look for pieces of Postscript
code from its library.
The important thing to remember is that grfguide.dvi makes requests
for both Computer Modern bit mapped and Type 1 scaled fonts. If you
can mix scalable and bit mapped fonts in a document, you're well on
the way to becoming a TeXpert.
6.1. What if my printer isn't supported?
The teTeX distribution comes with only a limited selection of DVI
output drivers: dvips, drivers for Hewlett Packard LaserJets, and
nothing else. You have two options if you have a printer which isn't
LaserJet-compatible: You can use dvips and Ghostscript, which I would
recommend anyway, for reasons already mentioned, or you can
investigate other dviware sources.
A limited number of DVI drivers have been ported to Linux and are
available as pre-built binaries. They are located in the Linux
archives at
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/tex/dvi/.
The master dviware libraries are maintained at the University of Utah
archives. If you can't find a DVI driver there that supports your
printer, chances are that it doesn't exist. You can also write your
own DVI driver using the templates available there. The library's URL
is
ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/dvi/.
7. Using Postscript fonts.
It used to be that public domain, Type 1 fonts were much poorer
quality than Computer Modern bit mapped fonts. This situation has
improved in the last several years, though, but matching the fonts is
up to you. Having several different font systems on one machine can
seem redundant and an unnecessary waste of disk space. And the
Computer Modern fonts can seem, well, a little too formal to be
suitable for everyday use. It reminds me sometimes of bringing out
the good China to feed the dog. At least you don't need to spend a
bundle on professional quality fonts any longer.
One of the major improvements of LaTeX2e over its predecessor was the
inclusion of the New Font Selection Scheme. (It's now called PSNFSS.)
Formerly, TeX authors would specify fonts with commands like
\font=bodyroman = cmr10 scaled \magstep 1
which provides precision but requires the skills of a type designer
and mathematician to make good use of. Also, it's not very portable.
If another system didn't have the font cmr10 (this is TeX nomenclature
for Computer Modern Roman, 10 point, with the default medium stroke
weight), somebody would have to re-code the fonts specifications for
the entire document. PSNFSS, however, allows you specify fonts by
family (Computer Modern, URW Nimbus, Helvetica, Utopia, and so forth),
weight (light, medium, bold), orientation (upright or oblique), face
(Roman, Italic), and base point size. (See the section ``Characters
and type styles'' for a description of the commands to specify
typefaces.) Many fonts are packaged as families. For example, a
Roman-type font may come packaged with a sans serif font, like
Helvetica, and a monospaced font, like Courier. You, as the author of
a LaTeX document, can specify an entire font family with one command.
There are, as I said, several high-quality font sets available in the
public domain. One of them is Adobe Utopia. Another is Bitstream
Charter. Both are commercial quality fonts which have been donated to
the public domain.
These happen to be two of my favorites. If you look around one of the
CTAN sites, you will find these and other fonts archived there. There
are enough fonts around that you'll be able to design documents the
way you want them to look, and not just English text, either. TeX was
originally designed for mathematical typesetting, so there is a full
range of mathematical fonts available, as well as Cyrillic, Greek,
Kana, and other alphabets too numerous to mention.
The important thing to look for is files which have either the .pfa or
.pfb extension. They indicate that these are the scalable fonts
themselves, not simply the metrics files. Type 1 fonts use .pfm
metric files, as opposed to the .tfm metric files which bit mapped
fonts use. The two font sets I mentioned above are included in teTeX
distributions, as well as separately.
What I said above, concerning the ease of font selection under PSNFSS,
is true in this instance. If we want to use the Charter fonts in our
document instead of Computer Modern bit mapped, all that is necessary
is include the LaTeX statement
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{bch}
in the document preamble, where ``bch'' is the common designation for
Bitstream Charter. The Charter fonts reside in the directory
/usr/lib/teTeX/texmf/fonts/type1/bitstrea/charter
There you'll see the .pfb files of the Charter fonts: bchb8a.pfb for
Charter Bold, bchr8a.pfb for Charter Roman, bchbi8a.pfb for Charter
Bold Italic. The ``8a'' in the font names indicates the character
encoding. At this point you shouldn't need to worry much about them,
because the encodings mostly differ for 8-bit characters, which have
numeric values above 128 decimal. They mostly define accents and non-
English characters. The Type 1 font encodings generally work well for
Western alphabets because they conform to the ISO 8859 standards for
international character sets, so this is an added benefit of using
them.
To typeset a document which has Charter fonts selected, you would give
the command
pslatex document.tex
pslatex is a variant of teTeX's standard latex command which defines
the directories where the Type 1 fonts are, as well as some additional
LaTeX code to load. You'll see the notice screen for pslatex followed
by the status output of the TeX job itself. In a moment, you'll have
a .dvi file which includes the Charter font requests. You can then
print the file with dvips, and gs if necessary.
Installing a Type 1 font set is not difficult, as long as you follow a
few basic steps. You should unpack the fonts in a subdirectory of the
/usr/lib/teTeX/texmf/fonts/type1 directory, where your other Type 1
fonts are located, and then run texhash to let the directory search
routines know that the fonts have been added. Then you need to add
the font descriptions to the file psfonts.map so dvips knows they're
on the system. The format of the psfonts.map file is covered in a
couple different places in the references mentioned above. Again,
remember to run the texhash program to update the teTeX directory
database.
It is definitely an advantage to use the X Windows System with
teTeX--- XFree86 under Linux---because it allows for superior document
previewing. It's not required, but in general, anything that allows
for easier screen previewing is going to benefit your work, in terms
of the quality of the output. However, there is a tradeoff with speed
of editing, which is much quicker on character-mode displays.
8. Appendix A: CTAN site list.
This is the text of the file CTAN.sites, which is available in the
top-level directory of each CTAN archive or mirror site.
In order to reduce network load, it is recommended that you use the
Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) host which is located in the
closest network proximity to your site. Alternatively, you may wish to
obtain a copy of the CTAN via CD-ROM (see help/CTAN.cdrom for details).
Known mirrors of the CTAN reside on (alphabetically):
cis.utovrm.it (Italia) /TeX
ctan.unsw.edu.au (NSW, Australia) /tex-archive
dongpo.math.ncu.edu.tw (Taiwan) /tex-archive
ftp.belnet.be (Belgium) /packages/TeX
ftp.ccu.edu.tw (Taiwan) /pub/tex
ftp.cdrom.com (West coast, USA) /pub/tex/ctan
ftp.comp.hkbu.edu.hk (Hong Kong) /pub/TeX/CTAN
ftp.cs.rmit.edu.au (Australia) /tex-archive
ftp.cs.ruu.nl (The Netherlands) /pub/tex-archive
ftp.cstug.cz (The Czech Republic) /pub/tex/CTAN
ftp.duke.edu (North Carolina, USA) /tex-archive
ftp.funet.fi (Finland) /pub/TeX/CTAN
ftp.gwdg.de (Deutschland) /pub/dante
ftp.jussieu.fr (France) /pub4/TeX/CTAN
ftp.kreonet.re.kr (Korea) /pub/CTAN
ftp.loria.fr (France) /pub/unix/tex/ctan
ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de (Deutschland) /pub/tex/mirror/ftp.dante.de
ftp.nada.kth.se (Sweden) /pub/tex/ctan-mirror
ftp.oleane.net (France) /pub/mirrors/CTAN/
ftp.rediris.es (Espa\~na) /mirror/tex-archive
ftp.rge.com (New York, USA) /pub/tex
ftp.riken.go.jp (Japan) /pub/tex-archive
ftp.tu-chemnitz.de (Deutschland) /pub/tex
ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp (Japan) /pub/tex/CTAN
ftp.uni-augsburg.de (Deutschland) /tex-archive
ftp.uni-bielefeld.de (Deutschland) /pub/tex
ftp.unina.it (Italia) /pub/TeX
ftp.uni-stuttgart.de (Deutschland) /tex-archive (/pub/tex)
ftp.univie.ac.at (\"Osterreich) /packages/tex
ftp.ut.ee (Estonia) /tex-archive
ftpserver.nus.sg (Singapore) /pub/zi/TeX
src.doc.ic.ac.uk (England) /packages/tex/uk-tex
sunsite.auc.dk (Denmark) /pub/tex/ctan
sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch (Switzerland) /mirror/tex
sunsite.icm.edu.pl (Poland) /pub/CTAN
sunsite.unc.edu (North Carolina, USA) /pub/packages/TeX
wuarchive.wustl.edu (Missouri, USA) /packages/TeX
Known partial mirrors of the CTAN reside on (alphabetically):
ftp.adfa.oz.au (Australia) /pub/tex/ctan
ftp.fcu.edu.tw (Taiwan) /pub2/tex
ftp.germany.eu.net (Deutschland) /pub/packages/TeX
ftp.gust.org.pl (Poland) /pub/TeX
ftp.jaist.ac.jp (Japan) /pub/TeX/tex-archive
ftp.uu.net (Virginia, USA) /pub/text-processing/TeX
nic.switch.ch (Switzerland) /mirror/tex
sunsite.dsi.unimi.it (Italia) /pub/TeX
sunsite.snu.ac.kr (Korea) /shortcut/CTAN
Please send updates to this list to <
[email protected]>.
The participating hosts in the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network are:
ftp.dante.de (Deutschland)
-- anonymous ftp /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive)
-- gopher on node gopher.dante.de
-- e-mail via
[email protected]
-- World Wide Web access on www.dante.de
-- Administrator: <
[email protected]>
ftp.tex.ac.uk (England)
-- anonymous ftp /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive)
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9. Appendix B: Installing the CTAN teTeX distribution.
The generic, teTeX distribution isn't any harder to install than the
Linux packages. See section ``Generic CTAN distribution'', below.
You should consider installing the generic teTeX distribution from the
CTAN archives if:
o Your system isn't based on one of the standard Linux distributions.
o You don't have root privileges on your system.
o You want or need to have the very latest version of teTeX, or
LaTeX.
o You don't have enough disk space available for a full installation.
o You want to install teTeX somewhere instead of the /usr file
system.
o You would like to share your teTeX installation with other UNIX
variants or platforms on a network. In this case, you should
strongly consider installing from the source distribution. See
section ``Installing the source distribution'', below.
o You want the latest versions of teTeX's public domain Type 1 fonts,
which are significantly better than the fonts included in earlier
releases.
A complete installation of the binary distribution requires 40-50 Mb
of disk space, and building the distribution from the source code
takes about 75 Mb, so you should make sure that the disk space is
available before you start. You don't need to have the GCC compiler
or the X Windows System installed (although X certainly helps because
it is much easier to preview documents on-screen). All you need is an
editor that is capable of producing plain ASCII, text (see section 2).
What could be simpler?
You can retrieve the files from one of the CTAN archives listed in
section ``Appendix A''. In the examples below, the files were
retrieved from the CTAN archive at ftp.tex.ac.uk.
9.1. Installing the binary distribution.
9.1.1. Minimal installation.
First, FTP to ftp.tex.ac.uk and cd to the directory
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/
Retrieve the files
INSTALL.bin
install.sh
and place them in the top-level directory where you want to install
teTeX, for example, /var/teTeX if you plan to install teTeX in the
/var file system.
Print out the INSTALL.bin file. Keep this file handy, because it
describes how to install a minimal teTeX installation. The minimal
installation requires only 10-15 MB of disk space, but it is
recommended that you install the complete teTeX package if at all
possible. For a minimum installation, you'll need the files
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/base/latex-base.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/base/tetex-base.tar.gz
You'll also need one of two archives which contain the executable
teTeX programs. Retrieve the archive file
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/binaries/i386-linux.tar.gz
if your system uses the Linux ELF shared libraries, ld.so of at least
version 1.73, and clibs of at least version 5.09. If it doesn't,
retrieve the archive
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/binaries/i386-linuxaout.tar.gz
which is compiled for systems that use the older, a.out-format static
libraries.
Then, following the instructions in the file INSTALL.bin, execute the
command
sh ./install.sh
while in the top-level teTeX installation directory. (Make sure that
the teTeX archives are located there, too.) After a few moments, the
installation program will warn you that you are missing some of the
teTeX packages. However, if you're planning only a minimal teTeX
installation, you should ignore the warnings and proceed. To config-
ure the basic teTeX system, see section ``Base system configuration'',
below.
To install the remaining packages, see the next section.
9.1.2. Complete installation.
To perform a complete teTeX installation, retrieve the archive files
listed in the previous section, as well as the following files:
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/doc/ams-doc.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/doc/bibtex-doc.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/doc/eplain-doc.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/doc/fonts-doc.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/doc/general-doc.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/doc/generic-doc.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/doc/latex-doc.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/doc/makeindex-doc.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/doc/metapost-doc.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/doc/programs-doc.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/fonts/ams-fonts.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/fonts/dc-fonts.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/fonts/ec-fonts.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/fonts/misc-fonts.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/fonts/postscript-fonts.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/fonts/sauter-fonts.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/goodies/amstex.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/goodies/bibtex.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/goodies/eplain.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/goodies/latex-extra.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/goodies/metapost.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/goodies/pictex.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/goodies/pstricks.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/goodies/texdraw.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/goodies/xypic.tar.gz
All of these files should be placed in the top-level directory where
you want teTeX to reside. As with the minimal installation, execute
the command
sh ./install.sh
9.2. Base system configuration.
The install.sh script, after determining which teTeX archive series
are present, will present you with a menu of options. The only
setting you need to make at this point is to set the top-level
directory where you want teTeX installed, by selecting the ``D''
option. You must, of course, choose a directory in whose parent
directory you have write permissions. For example, if you are
installing teTeX in your home directory, you would specify the teTeX
installation directory as
/home/john.q.public/teTeX
and, after returning to the main menu, select ``I'' to proceed with
the installation. Note that the directory must not exist already: the
install.sh script must be able to create it.
An option which you should consider enabling, is setting an
alternative directory for generated fonts. Even if you plan to use
only Postscript-format, Type 1 scalable fonts, occasionally you'll
process a file that requires the Computer Modern fonts. Enabling this
option requires that you enter the directory to use. You must have
write permissions for the parent directory. Following the example
above, you could specify
/home/john.q.public/texfonts
or, if you want the generated fonts to be accessible by all users on
the system, specify a directory like
/var/texfonts
I would recommend that you not, however, use the default /var/tmp/tex-
fonts directory for this option, because the generated fonts could be
deleted after the next reboot, and the fonts will need to be generated
again the next time they're needed.
After you've selected the option ``I'', and install.sh has installed
the archives, set various permissions, and generated its links and
format files, the program will exit with a message telling you to add
the teTeX binary directory to your $PATH environment variable, and the
directories where the man pages and info files reside to your $MANPATH
and $INFOPATH environment variables. For example, add the statements
export PATH=$PATH:"/home/john.q.public/teTeX/bin"
export MANPATH=$MANPATH":/home/john.q.public/teTeX/man"
export INFOPATH$=INFOPATH":/home/john.q.public/teTeX/info"
to your ~/.bash_profile if you use bash as your shell, or to your
~/.profile if you use another shell for logins.
Log out, and then log in again, so the environment variables are
registered. Then, run the command
texconfig confall
to insure that the installation is correct.
Next, you can configure teTeX for you specific hardware. See section
``Post-installation configuration details'', below.
9.3. Installing the CTAN source distribution.
To install teTeX V. 0.4 from the source code, ftp to a CTAN site like
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk and retrieve the files
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/INSTALL.src
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/sources/README.texmf-src
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/sources/teTeX-lib-0.4pl8.tar.gz
ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/sources/teTeX-src-0.4pl7.tar.gz
Read over the instructions in INSTALL.src, then su to root and unpack
the files in a directory for which you have read-write-execute
permissions.
Remember to use the p argument to tar, and also remember to unset the
noclobber option of bash. You can do this with the counterintuitive
command
set +o noclobber
Note that the argument +o to set unsets a variable, just exactly back-
wards from what you might expect.
The file teTeX-lib-0.4pl8.tar.gz will create the directory ./teTeX.
The file teTeX-src-0.4pl7.tar.gz will create the directory teTeX-
src-0.4 Print out the file INSTALL.src and keep it nearby for the
following steps. cd to the ./teTeX-src-0.4 directory, and, per the
instructions in the INSTALL.src file, edit ./Makefile. You need to
set the TETEXDIR variable to the absolute path of the parent teTeX
directory. This will be the subdirectory teTeX of the directory where
you unpacked the source and library archives. For example, if you
unpacked the archives in your home directory, you would set TETEXDIR
to
/home/john.q.public/teTeX
The rest of the Makefile options are pretty generic. With GCC version
2.7.2 and later, you should not need to make any further adjustments
unless you have a non-standard compiler and library setup, or want the
compiler to perform some further optimizations, or for some other rea-
son. Check that the USE_DIALOG, USE_NCURSES, and HAVE_NCURSES vari-
ables are set correctly for your system, because the dialog program
needs the ncurses library to be installed. A ncurses library is
included in the source distribution, so the default values in the
Makefile should work fine. If you can't get ncurses to compile or
link, texconfig can also be run from the command line.
If you've done everything correctly up to this point, you should be
able to type make world in the top-level source directory, and relax
until the teTeX executables are built. This can take a few hours.
After the build has completed, set the environment variables $PATH,
$MANPATH, and $INFOPATH to include the teTeX directories. The
statements which would be added to the file ~/.bash_profile, in the
example, above, would be
export PATH=$PATH":/home/john.q.public/teTeX/bin/i386-linux"
export MANPATH=$MANPATH":/home/john.q.public/teTeX/man"
export INFOPATH=$INFOPATH":/home/john.q.public/teTeX/info"
The $PATH variable is different in the source distribution than in the
binary distribution. Note that here the path to the binaries is
teTeX/bin/i386-linux instead of simply teTeX/bin as in the binary dis-
tribution.
At this point you can run texconfig confall to ensure that the paths
have been set correctly, and then proceed to configure teTeX as in the
binary distribution. See the section ``Post-installation
configuration details'', below.
9.4. Post-installation configuration details.
The first thing you want to do is look at Thomas Esser's README file.
It contains a lot of hints on how to configure teTeX for your output
device (i.e., printer). The README file is located in the directory
/usr/lib/teTeX/texmf/doc/tetex
Read the file over with the command (the path in the following exam-
ples is that of the Slackware distribution):
less /usr/lib/teTeX/texmf/doc/tetex/README
or, print it out with the command
cat /usr/lib/teTeX/texmf/doc/tetex/README >/dev/lp0
assuming that your printer is connected to /dev/lp0. Substitute the
device driver file that your printer is connected to, as appropriate.
Or, better still, print it using the lpr command:
lpr /usr/lib/teTeX/texmf/doc/tetex/README
You should have installed the printer daemon that is included with
your distribution of Linux. If not, do that now, per the instructions
that come with the package.
Print out the teTeX-FAQ. Keep the FAQ handy because it contains useful
hints for configuring teTeX's output drivers for your printer. We'll
get to that in a moment. In more recent releases of teTeX, the teTeX-
FAQ is viewable via the texconfig utility.
Next, you want to define a directory to store your own TeX format
files. teTeX searches the directories listed by the $TEXINPUTS
environment variable for local TeX input files:
export TEXINPUTS=".:~/texinputs:"
to the system-wide /etc/profile file. Individual users can set their
own local $TEXINPUTS directory, by adding the line in their ~/.profile
or ~/.bash_profile if bash is the default shell. The $TEXINPUTS envi-
ronment variable tells teTeX to look for users' individual TeX style
files in the ~/texinputs directories under each user's home directory.
It is critical that a colon appear before and after this directory.
teTeX is going to append its own directory searches to your own. You
want to have teTeX search the local format files first, so it uses the
local versions of any of the standard files you have edited.
Add the /usr/lib/teTeX/bin directory to the system-wide path if you're
installing teTeX as root. Again, if you're installing a personal copy
of teTeX, add the directory where the teTeX binaries are located to
the front your $PATH with the following line in your ~/.profile or
~/.bash_profile:
export PATH="~/tetex/bin:"$PATH
Now, log in as root and run texconfig per the instructions in the
teTeX-FAQ and choose the printer that is attached to your system.
Make sure that you configure teTeX for both the correct printer and
printer resolution.
Finally, run the texhash program. This ensures that teTeX's internal
database is up to date. The database is actually a ls-lR file. You
must run texhash every time you change the system configuration, or
teTeX will not be able to locate your changes.
10. Appendix C: Distribution and Copyright.
10.1. Distribution.
teTeX is free software; this means everyone is free to use the
software and free to redistribute it on certain conditions. The
package is not in the public domain. It is copyrighted and there are
restrictions on its distribution, but these restrictions are designed
to permit everything that a good cooperating citizen would want to do.
What is not allowed is to try to prevent others from further sharing
any version of free software that they might get from you. The
precise conditions are found in the GNU General Public License that
comes with many of the software packages and also appears following
this section.
One way to get a copy of the package is from someone else who has it.
You need not ask for our permission to do so, or tell any one else;
just copy it. If you have access to the Internet, you can get the
latest distribution versions by anonymous FTP. See the chapter
``Sources'' for more information.
You may also receive the software when you buy a computer. Computer
manufacturers are free to distribute copies on the same terms that
apply to everyone else. These terms require them to give you the full
sources, including whatever changes they may have made, and to permit
you to redistribute these packages received from them under the usual
terms of the General Public License. In other words, the program must
be free for you when you get it, not just free for the manufacturer.
You can also order copies of GNU software from the Free Software
Foundation on CD-ROM. This is a convenient and reliable way to get a
copy; it is also a good way to help fund our work. (The Foundation
has always received most of its funds in this way.) An order form is
included many distribution, and on our web site in
http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/order/order.html. For further information,
write to
Free Software Foundation
59 Temple Place, Suite 330
Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
USA
The income from distribution fees goes to support the foundation's
purpose: the development of new free software, and improvements to our
existing programs.
If you use GNU software at your workplace, please suggest that the
company make a donation. If company policy is unsympathetic to the
idea of donating to charity, you might instead suggest ordering a CD-
ROM from the Foundation occasionally, or subscribing to periodic
updates.
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Version 2, June 1991
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple
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OR CORRECTION.
o IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN
WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY
MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE
LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL,
INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR
INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF
DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU
OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY
OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
10.3. How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these
terms.
To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
the ``copyright'' line and a pointer to where the full notice is
found.
[one line to give the program's name and an idea of what it does.
Copyright (C) 19[yy] [name of author]
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper
mail.
If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
when it starts in an interactive mode:
Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19[yy] [name of author]
Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details
type `show w'. This is free software, and you are welcome
to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `show c'
for details.
The hypothetical commands ``show w'' and ``show c'' should show the
appropriate parts of the General Public License. Of course, the
commands you use may be called something other than ``show w'' and
``show c''; they could even be mouse-clicks or menu items---whatever
suits your program.
You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or
your school, if any, to sign a ``copyright disclaimer'' for the
program, if necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright
interest in the program `Gnomovision'
(which makes passes at compilers) written
by James Hacker.
[signature of Ty Coon] 1 April 1989
Ty Coon, President of Vice
This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program
into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library,
you may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary
applications with the library. If this is what you want to do, use
the GNU Library General Public License instead of this License.
