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Notes on making the LaTeX markup language do what you want it to do. |
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* use pdflatex(1) to create [PDF] files. See the [PdfLatexNotes] page for more. |
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** alternately, you could use [LaTeXpdf] (which is a different method for making PDFs from LaTeX). |
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* [Here|http://www.giss.nasa.gov/latex/] is a really good online HTML doc about LaTeX commands |
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Here is a command that lets you do different things with numbers depending on their magnitude. |
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\ifnum#1=0 {\bf zero} \else |
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!! Error message - "Float(s) lost" |
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! LaTeX Error: Float(s) lost. |
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See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. |
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Type H <return> for immediate help. |
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l.2085 \end{figure} |
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! LaTeX Error: This may be a LaTeX bug. |
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Type H <return> for immediate help. |
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I got this message when I had a figure at the start of a <tt>\subsection</tt> with no text before it. Moving the figure down a bit so that some text appeared before it in the input file fixed this. |
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!!Relative Include (<tt>\input</tt>) Paths |
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See the LatexMakefiles page. |
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!!Arbitrary Angles |
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see /usr/share/doc/tetex-''version''/latex/rotating/examples.tex if you have the tetex-doc package installed. |
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!!Putting text at the bottom of a page |
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\newpage |
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\begin{centering} |
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{\small \copyright{} 2005} |
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See also LatexWordcount. |
