References for TeX and Friends

License

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.

Revision History
Revision 0.3.9 2005-05-14
Consistent naming scheme of IDs to ease the use of this reference for other projects; added new section float in chapter LaTeX.
Revision 0.2.0 2003-01-11
License changed to GNU Free Documentation License.
Revision 0.0.1 2002-06-21
This version was adapted from the edition 1.6 of the LaTeX2e documentation, converted to DocBook XML using texi2db, and further edited manually.

Table of Contents

Preface
Credits
1 TeX
1.1 PlainTeX
1.1.1 Overview
1.2 LaTeX
1.2.1 Options
1.2.2 Overview of LaTeX and Local Guide
1.2.3 Commands
1.2.4 Parameters
1.3 LaTeX Packages
1.3.1 amsmath
1.3.2 dcolumn
1.3.3 float
1.3.4 fontenc
1.3.5 german
1.3.6 graphics
1.3.7 hyperref
1.3.8 inputenc
1.3.9 KOMA-Script
1.3.10 mathpazo
1.3.11 varioref
1.3.12 Several Small Packages
1.4 Generic Packages
1.4.1 PiCTeX (tbd.)
1.4.2 PSTricks
1.5 fontinst (tbd.)
1.6 ConTeXt (tbd.)
1.6.1 Overview
1.7 Texinfo (tbd.)
2 pdfTeX
2.1 Options
2.1.1 --file-line-error-style
2.1.2 --fmt format
2.1.3 --help
2.1.4 --ini
2.1.5 --interaction mode
2.1.6 --ipc
2.1.7 --ipc-start
2.1.8 --jobname name
2.1.9 --kpathsea-debug bitmask
2.1.10 --maketex fmt
2.1.11 --no-maketex fmt
2.1.12 --output-comment string
2.1.13 --parse-first-line
2.1.14 --progname name
2.1.15 --recorder
2.1.16 --shell-escape
2.1.17 --translate-file tcxname
2.1.18 --version
2.2 Environment
3 Metafont (tbd.)
4 MetaPost
4.1 Options
4.1.1 --file-line-error-style
4.1.2 --help
4.1.3 --ini
4.1.4 --interaction mode
4.1.5 --jobname name
4.1.6 --kpathsea-debug bitmask
4.1.7 --mem mem
4.1.8 --parse-first-line
4.1.9 --progname name
4.1.10 --recorder
4.1.11 -T
4.1.12 --translate-file tcxname
4.1.13 --troff
4.1.14 --version
4.2 Environment
5 BibTeX
5.1 Parameters
5.2 Command Qualifiers
5.3 bib files
5.3.1 @STRING command
5.3.2 Entry Format
5.3.3 Entry Types
5.3.4 Field Text
5.3.5 Field Types
5.4 bst files
5.4.1 ABBRV.BST
5.4.2 ALPHA.BST
5.4.3 PLAIN.BST
5.4.4 SAMPLE.BST
5.4.5 UNSRT.BST
6 Make-Index
6.1 Options
6.1.1 -c
6.1.2 -g
6.1.3 -i
6.1.4 -l
6.1.5 -q
6.1.6 -r
6.1.7 -s sty
6.1.8 -o ind
6.1.9 -t log
6.1.10 -p no
6.1.11 -L
6.1.12 -T
6.2 Style File
6.2.1 Input Style Specifiers
6.2.2 Output Style Specifiers
6.3 Example
6.4 Ordering
6.5 Special Effects
7 xindy
7.1 Command List
7.1.1 Processing Commands
7.1.2 Markup Commands
7.1.3 Raw Index Interface
7.2 Invoking xindy
7.2.1 Command Line Options
7.2.2 Search Path
A Appendices
A.1 Bugs / Known Issues / Missing Features
A.2 About this Document
A.3 Release News
A.4 GNU Free Documentation License
Index

List of Tables

1.1 Options for \newcommand
1.2 Options for \newenvironment
1.3 Options for \newtheorem
1.4 Commands in a tabbing environment
1.5 Commands used inside a tabular environment
1.6 Standard styles distributed with BibTeX
1.7 Three environments that put LaTeX in math mode
1.8 Math Miscellany
1.9 Typefaces
1.10 Standard type size commands
1.11 Low-level font commands
1.12 Special coordinates and angles