Sample PDF Document Robert Maron Grzegorz Grudziński February 20, 1999
Contents 1 Template 1.1 How to compile a .tex file to a .pdf file . 1.1.1 Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.2 How to use the tools . . . . . . . . 1.2 How to write a document . . . . . . . . . . 1.2.1 The main document . . . . . . . . . 1.2.2 Chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2.3 Spell-checking . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 LATEX and pdfLATEX capabilities . . . . . . . 1.3.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3.2 LATEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3.3 pdfLATEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Chapter 1 Template 1.1 How to compile a .tex file to a .pdf file 1.1.1 Tools To process the files you (may) need: • pdflatex (for example from tetex package ≥ 0.9-6, which you can get from Red Hat 5.2); • acroread (a PDF viewer, available from http://www.adobe.com/); • ghostscript ≥ 5.10 (for example from Red Hat Contrib) and ghostview or gv (from RedHat Linux); • efax package could be useful, if you plan to fax documents. 1.1.2 How to use the tools Follow these steps: 1. put all source .
CHAPTER 1. TEMPLATE 6 4. run ghostscript: “gv file.pdf” to display or: “gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pswrite -q -dBATCH -sOutputFile=file.ps file.pdf” to produce a PostScript file; 5. run “fax send phone-number file.ps” as root to send a fax, or — if you know how to do this — modify the fax script to be able to fax .pdf files directly (you have to insert “|%PDF*” somewhere. . . ). 1.2 How to write a document 1.2.1 The main document Choose the name of the document, say document. Copy template.tex to document.
1.3. LATEX AND PDFLATEX CAPABILITIES 1.3 7 LATEX and pdfLATEX capabilities 1.3.1 Overview First you edit your source .tex file. In LATEX you compile it using the latex command to a .dvi file (which stands for device-independent). The .dvi file can be converted to any device-dependent format you like using an appropriate driver, for example dvips. When producing .pdf files you should use pdflatex, which produces directly .pdf files out of .tex sources. Note that in the .
CHAPTER 1. TEMPLATE 8 Hyperlinks This is a target. And this is a link. Dashes, etc. There are three kinds of horizontal dash: • - (use inside words; for example “home-page”, “X-rated”) • – (use this one between numbers; for example “pages 2–22”) • — (use this one as a sentence separator — like here) National characters • ó, é, í, . . . • è, à, ì, . . . • ô, ê, . . . • õ, ñ, . . . • ö, ë, . . . • ż • a,˛ e˛ • ł, ø, ß There are other ways to do this, see the documentation for inputenc package.
1.3. LATEX AND PDFLATEX CAPABILITIES Math • 12 , 12n , . . . • i1 , i2n , . . . • 1 2n , , 2 2−3 ... • α, β, γ, Ω, . . . • →, ⇒, ≥, 6=, ∈, ?, . . . √ • 2, . . . • 2 + 2, . . . For more examples and symbols see chapter 3 of lshort2e.dvi.
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