Welcome to the UK List of
TeX Frequently Asked Questions

Introduction

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

An alternative HTML version of the FAQ may be found on the TeX Live CDROM.

A copy of the complete FAQ, in PDF with many hyperlinks, may be found on help/uk-tex-faq/newfaq.pdf (formatted for A4 paper) or help/uk-tex-faq/letterfaq.pdf (formatted for North American "letter" paper).

Most members of the committee of UK TUG, over the years since 1994, have contributed to this FAQ to some extent. The following people, who have never been members of the committee, have also contributed help or advice: Donald Arseneau, Barbara Beeton, Karl Berry, Giuseppe Bilotta, Damian Cugley, Michael Dewey, Michael Downes, Thomas Esser, Anthony Goreham, Norman Gray, Eitan Gurari, Hartmut Henkel, John Hobby, Berthold Horn, Ian Hutchinson, Werner Icking, David Kastrup, Regnor Jernsletten, Daniel Luecking, Sanjoy Mahajan, Andreas Matthias, Ted Nieland, Hans Nordhaug, Pat Rau, Heiko Oberdiek, Piet van Oostrum, Scott Pakin, Oren Patashnik, José Carlos Santos, Walter Schmidt, Joachim Schrod, Ulrik Vieth, Mike Vulis, Peter Wilson, Rick Zaccone and Reinhard Zierke.

The Background

Documentation and Help

Bits and pieces of TeX

Acquiring the Software

TeX Systems

DVI Drivers and Previewers

Support Packages for TeX

Literate programming

Format conversions

Hypertext and PDF

Fonts

Metafont fonts

Adobe Type 1 ("PostScript") fonts

Particular font families

Graphics

Bibliographies and citations

Creating bibliographies

Creating citations

Manipulating whole bibliographies

Installing (La)TeX files

Adjusting the typesetting

Alternative document classes

Document structure

Page layout

Spacing of characters and lines

Typesetting specialities

Tables of contents and indexes

How do I do X in (La)TeX

Mathematics

Lists

Tables, figures and diagrams

Footnotes

Document management

Hyphenation

Odds and ends

Symbols, etc.

Macro programming

"Generic" macros

LaTeX macros

Things are Going Wrong...

Getting things to fit

Making things stay where you want them

Things have "gone away"

Why does it do that?

Common errors

Common misunderstandings

The joy of TeX errors

Current TeX Projects

You're still stuck?


Maintenance of the TeX FAQ is coordinated by Robin Fairbairns.

Comments, suggestions, or error reports? -- see "Improving the FAQ" or "Extending the FAQ".

This is FAQ version 3.1b, last modified on 2002/09/08.