I am pleased to announce version 3.16 of the UK TeX FAQ; it has been installed at the Cambridge node, and should be somewhere near you really soon.
The FAQ is LaTeX-oriented, but has a fair amount aimed to help and interest Plain TeX users. Users of other macro packages may not find it terribly helpful (but then, Context users always have contextgarden...).
I append the changes file below.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Changes in version 3.16
These are changes from 3.15a, which incorporated a couple of minor corrections made on the day 3.15 was uploaded
New answers: Label chngmargonfly: changing the document's margins on the fly Label doc-wiki: catalogue of known tex-related WIKIs Label fonts-pln: sophisticated font selection macros in Plain TeX Label gutter: the problem with two-sided document margins Label marginmanual: setting up the document's margins by hand Label marginpkgs: packages for setting up the document's margins Label matchbrak: matching [] in optional arguments, etc. Label newfont: why shouldn't I use ewfont in LaTeX? Label poster: summary of the inadequate state of support for posters Label repeatgrf: repeated graphics in documents Label whatbst: choosing a BibTeX style Label whatpdftex: PDFTeX has entered the mainstream (actually, it did some time ago, but I've now recognised that in the FAQ)
Answers removed: Label pdftex: I think pdftex is no longer research -- see label whatpdftex
Revised answers: Label ant: correct home page reference Label changemargin: rehashed as intro and list of links to (new) instruction answers marginpkgs, marginmanual and chngmargonfly Label complist: mention multenum package Label cv: europecv has improved, and there's a new class moderncv Label dvipsgraphics: extend discussion of bitmap graphics in dvips Label drawing: correct URL for pstricks site Label findfiles: remove mention of the (long dead) quote site index, add the catalogue bytopic.html Label fmtconv: troff-to-latex no longer available Label newfunction: mention operatorname command Label labundef: mention labelcas package Label labelfig: mention iTe editor, correct URL on pstricks page Label man-tex: correct URL for Andy Roberts' page Label man-latex: add Chris Harrison's web manual Label rotating: mention rotfloat package Label seccntformat: correction of suggested code Label secthead: remove 2.09 font commands from simple example Label struttab: mention new cellspace package Label texsystems: mention w32tex (from japan) -- capable of being a minimal system Label tutbitslatex: correct URL for the pTeX description, add link to Smith's LaTeX for logicians Label usepictex: correct stuff about mathspic package Label verbwithin: make clear problems apply to verbatim environment, too Label xetex: simplify the answer (the details are all on the web site, anyway), and mention the new linux port
Presentation: LaTeX ``...'' quotes in the source used to be converted to the ascii double-quote character in the HTML; this is changed to use the HTML entities for typographic quotes (similarly for single quotes and apostrophes).
A minor change to html generation has been made, inserting paragraph elements after block quotes: this makes CSS-controlled display more regular (a CSS sheet is used in the code generated for the new CGI engine -- see below).
Building the FAQ now requires e-TeX (or rather [pdf-]e-LaTeX); this should not be a problem unless your TeX distribution is a bit aged.
Future releases: This release is wildly overdue (even making allowance for my extended illness). If I can find the time to do so, I intend in future to release anything that's available, around the end of each month. Full releases, with batches of new questions, may still be long delayed, but I hope not.
Coming up (still): I have a far more efficient CGI engine for serving answers to the web; those of a strong constitution may view the experimental testbed at: URL http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html-gamma It is missing a search engine, various links and topping and tailing of answers; it uses Cambridge University's default CSS sheet in a non-standard way; and, crucially it lacks **SUPPORT**. I welcome suggestions for improving the way I do things, but I can't claim it will always work.
Mechanisms whereby I can point to the CTAN catalogue from FAQ answers remains as a background task; I suggested several ways (last time) in which such links would be valuable.