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Diffs to Frequently Asked Questions about TeX and LaTeX [monthly]

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From: Bobby Bodenheimer
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 1994 04:09
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  interess\'e par fr.comp.text.tex d'avoir l'indulgence d'accepter la
  version anglaise.
  
! This is version 1.46 for October, last changed 10/10/94.
  
  This article includes answers to:
  
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  interess\'e par fr.comp.text.tex d'avoir l'indulgence d'accepter la
  version anglaise.
  
! This is version 1.48 for November, last changed 11/7/94.
  
  This article includes answers to:
  
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  Louarn, Rafal Zbikowski, Anita Marie Hoover, David Rhead, Darrell
  McCauley, Cameron Smith, Emma Pease, Patrick McPhee, Karl Berry, Robin
  Fairbairns, Joohee Jeong, Sam Steingold, J\"org Knappen, Barbara
! Beeton, and Norman Ramsay provided additional material and
! criticisms. The format of this document is based on the Frequently
  Asked Questions written by Steve Hayman which formerly appeared in
  comp.unix.wizards. Any mistakes are mine. Send corrections,
  suggestions, and additions to bobby@hot.caltech.edu.
--- 130,137 ----
  Louarn, Rafal Zbikowski, Anita Marie Hoover, David Rhead, Darrell
  McCauley, Cameron Smith, Emma Pease, Patrick McPhee, Karl Berry, Robin
  Fairbairns, Joohee Jeong, Sam Steingold, J\"org Knappen, Barbara
! Beeton, Norman Ramsay, and Richard Mathar provided additional material
! and criticisms. The format of this document is based on the Frequently
  Asked Questions written by Steve Hayman which formerly appeared in
  comp.unix.wizards. Any mistakes are mine. Send corrections,
  suggestions, and additions to bobby@hot.caltech.edu.
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     _PostScript Language Reference Manual_). If you don't have an EPS
     file, life can be difficult.
  
+    To allow resizing by dvips (see question 2) with PostScript files
+    that are not EPS files, add the one line comment
+    %%BoundingBox: llx lly urx ury" 
+    prior to any non-comment line in the PostScript file. The four
+    ``lower left'' and ``upper right'' arguments must be numbers to
+    indicate the lower left and upper right corner in units of 1/72 of
+    an inch. Otherwise, dvips assumes the PostScript file fills a whole
+    page.
+ 
     One further note about including PostScript figures is that they
     are not part of the dvi file, but are included when you use a dvi
     to PostScript conversion program. As a result, most dvi previewers
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         BibTeX, etc., as well. Documentation is available in both German 
         and English.
  
-        All Public Domain TeX software for the PC is also available 
-        through TUG. A catalog is available free from them at the 
-        address given in question 11. This collection is maintained by 
-        Jon Radel, who will answer technical questions on the material 
-        (with no service guarantee). Send electronic mail to jon@radel.com.
- 
      Mac - see question 7 for a public domain version (OzTeX). Another version
         is CMacTeX, which has TeX 3.14, METAFONT 2.7, a screen previewer,
         dvips, a PostScript printing utility for the LaserWriter, and some font
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      Michael Levine's macro package for drawing Feynman diagrams in LaTeX
      is available via mail-server from physics.utoronto.ca. Send a message
      containing the line ``send INDEX'' to mail-server@physics.utoronto.ca
!     for information on how to retrieve it.
  
  35) What is the New Font Selection Scheme (NFSS)?
  
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      Michael Levine's macro package for drawing Feynman diagrams in LaTeX
      is available via mail-server from physics.utoronto.ca. Send a message
      containing the line ``send INDEX'' to mail-server@physics.utoronto.ca
!     for information on how to retrieve it. It is also available from any
!     CTAN site or mirror (see question 22).
  
  35) What is the New Font Selection Scheme (NFSS)?
  
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      If you have chapters with a preamble that comes before the first
      section, you should not put equations there, as you will get funny
!     numbers like 3.0.1.
! 
  
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      If you have chapters with a preamble that comes before the first
      section, you should not put equations there, as you will get funny
!     numbers like 3.0.1. There are also two style files available from
!     any CTAN site called seceqn.sty and apeqnum.sty. The first numbers
!     equations by section, and the second gives individual equation
!     numbers to equations in the appendix.
  
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