This FAQ was originated by the Committee of the UK TeX Users' Group (UK TUG) as a development of a regular posting to the Usenet newsgroup comp.text.tex that was maintained for some time by Bobby Bodenheimer. The first UK version was much re-arranged and corrected from the original, and little of Bodenheimer's work now remains.
An alternative HTML version of the FAQ may be found in TeX Live.
A copy of the complete FAQ, in PDF with many hyperlinks, may be found on help/uk-tex-faq/newfaq.pdf (formatted for A4 paper) or help/uk-tex-faq/letterfaq.pdf (formatted for North American "letter" paper).
Most members of the committee of UK TUG, over the years since 1994, have contributed to this FAQ to some extent. The following people, who have never been members of the committee, have also contributed help or advice: Donald Arseneau, Barbara Beeton, Karl Berry, Giuseppe Bilotta, Charles Cameron, Damian Cugley, Michael Dewey, Michael Downes, Thomas Esser, Anthony Goreham, Norman Gray, Eitan Gurari, William Hammond, Hartmut Henkel, John Hobby, Morten Høgholm, Berthold Horn, Ian Hutchinson, Werner Icking, Regnor Jernsletten, David Kastrup, Isaac Khabaza, Ulrich Klauer, Markus Kohm, Simon Law, Daniel Luecking, Sanjoy Mahajan, Andreas Matthias, Brooks Moses, Ted Nieland, Hans Nordhaug, Pat Rau, Heiko Oberdiek, Piet van Oostrum, Scott Pakin, Oren Patashnik, José Carlos Santos, Walter Schmidt, Hans-Peter Schröcker, Joachim Schrod, Maarten Sneep, James Szinger, Ulrik Vieth, Mike Vulis, Peter Wilson, Rick Zaccone and Reinhard Zierke.
Caveat: Acquiring files
Most answers in this FAQ provide links for downloading
software; a large proportion of these links direct you to entire
directories on the CTAN archives. Unfortunately, some browsers
issue a sequence of commands that causes CTAN servers to deny
the existence of compressed archive files of the directory. The
FAQ now therefore offers three possible links for downloading
directories (that aren't already designated "browse only"): the
links give you .tar.gz and .zip archives, and (for those with the
troublesome browsers) a link for browsing the directory.
\special commands
.dtx files)
nonfree tree?
.bib files
\subsubsubsection
\pagestyle{empty} on first page in LaTeX
\ragged commands
\the-commands
\@ and @ in macro names
\edef does not work with \protect
\section
\tenrm
msx and msy fonts?
am fonts?
\verb work within ...?
tabbing
\include commands?
\marginpar on the right side
\linespread work?
\baselineskip per paragraph
eqnarray?
\[ ...\] in place of $$ ...$$?
\bf, \it, etc.?
}'??
epsf gives up after a bit
\hyphenation will be flushed
\spacefactor complaints
\end occurred inside a group
\end"
$ inserted"
\cr
\begin{document}
\normalsize not defined
Comments, suggestions, or error reports? -- see "Improving the FAQ" or "Extending the FAQ".
This is FAQ version 3.13a, last modified on 2005/01/04.