Welcome to the UK List of
TeX Frequently Asked Questions

Introduction

This FAQ was prepared 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, John Hobby, Berthold Horn, Ian Hutchinson, Werner Icking, David Kastrup, Daniel Luecking, Sanjoy Mahajan, Andreas Matthias, Dick Nickalls, Ted Nieland, 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

Metafont and MetaPost

PostScript and TeX

Bibliographies and citations

Installing (La)TeX files

Special sorts of typesetting

How do I do X in TeX or LaTeX

Symbols, etc.

Macro programming

Typesetting particular types of documents

Things are Going Wrong...

Why does it do that?

The joy of TeX errors

Current TeX Projects

You're still stuck?


Maintenance of the TeX FAQ is coordinated (nominally for the UK TeX Users' Group) (UKTUG-Enquiries@tex.ac.uk) by Robin Fairbairns.

Comments, suggestions, or error reports may reported direct to the FAQ maintainer. This is NOT a help address.

This is FAQ version 2.5.8a, last modified on 2001/12/15.