.dvi device independent file, latex's output .log latex's log file .aux helper file for e.g. sectioning
latex - convert a .tex file to a .dvi file xdvi - view a .dvi file pdflatex - convert a .tex file to a .pdf file dvipdf - convert a .dvi file to a .pdf file
texdoc -l list documentation on installed tex packages texdoc view tex documentation for package
Package search:
~/texmf
mktexpk mktexfm kpathsea
texhash - update the ls-R file to notice new files in the texmf tree.
web2c.dvi - manual about environment variables and search paths?? tds.dvi - describes a tex tree texmf.cnf - set up tex variables? TEXMF={A,B,C} # where A, B, and C are tex trees TEXMFCNF - the location of a texmf.cnf file
/.bashrc:
export TEXMF='{/texmf,!!$TEXMFLOCAL:!!$TEXMFMAIN}'
or
~/.bashrc:
export TEXMFCNF=$HOME/etc/texmf.cnf
/etc/texmf.cnf:
TEXMF = {/texmf,!!$TEXMFLOCAL!!$TEXMFMAIN}
texconfig dvips paper letter texconfig xdvi us
Installing hyphenation patterns:
GRAhyph4.tex has hyphenation patterns for ancient Greek. GRPhyph4.tex has hyphenation patterns for modern, polytonic Greek.
Copy these files to texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/.
Now add these lines to texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat:
greek GRAhyph4.tex polutonikogreek GRPhyph4.tex
Rebuild the ls-R database. Cd to texmf and run mktexlsr.
Finally, go to texmf/web2c and run this command to rebuild the latex.fmt file:
initex latex.ltx
Word Count:
It is very hard to get a word count for a latex document. See here: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040606044542980&query=pbpaste
The detex x.tex | wc -w approach is known to produce invalid results.
Possibly correct (untested by me) is ps2ascii x.ps | wc -w.
The poster suggests opening the file in Acrobat, setting the preferences to display continuous (instead of one page),
copying the whole thing, then typing pbpaste | wc -w. This will count page numbers as words, but you can just subtract one for each page in the document.
It seems that whatever approach you use, you could write a quick script for it.
\usepackage{setspace}
% Use one of these in the preamble, and use them again throughout the document if you want to change: \singlespacing \onehalfspacing \doublespacing \setstretch{1.2}
Use \bgroup and \egroup when braces would otherwise become unmatched, e.g.:
\newenvironment{boxthis} { \fbox\bgroup } { \egroup }