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• What is MetaPost?
• Things with “TeX” in the name
• What is PDFTeX?
• What is ConTeXt?
• What is Texinfo?
• What is a DVI file?
• \special commands
• Spawning programs from (La)TeX: \write18
• Unicode and TeX
• Finding new fonts
• Unix and GNU Linux systems
• (Modern) Windows systems
• Macintosh systems
• Where to install packages
• Installing a Type 1 font
• Choice of Type 1 fonts for typesetting Maths
• Which font files should be kept
• Making PDF documents from (La)TeX
• Making hypertext documents from TeX
• The wrong type of fonts in PDF
• Fonts go fuzzy when you switch to T1
• Hyperref and repeated page numbers
• Searching PDF files
• Imported graphics in PDFLaTeX
• Imported graphics in dvipdfm
• “Modern” graphics file names
• Portable imported graphics
• Repeated graphics in a document
• Displaying MetaPost output in ghostscript
• Drawing with TeX
• Labelling graphics
• Getting the right paper geometry from (La)TeX
• Typesetting things in landscape orientation
• Parallel setting of text
• Changing the space between letters
• Big letters at the start of a paragraph
• Marking changed parts of your document
• Conditional compilation and “comments”
• Makefiles for LaTeX documents
• Am I using PDFTeX, XeTeX or LuaTeX?
• What’s happened to initex?
• Link text doesn’t break at end line
• Characters disappear from figures in PDFTeX
• (La)TeX makes overfull lines
• “Unknown graphics extension”
• Non-PDF special ignored!
• PDFTeX destination … ignored
• XeTeX
• PDFTeX and LuaTeX
• The ExTeX project

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This is FAQ version 3.26, released on 2013-02-25.