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## Further information

For a general introduction to LATEX, including the new features of LATEX2e, you should read LaTeX: A Document Preparation System, Leslie Lamport, Addison Wesley, 2nd ed, 1994. A more detailed description of the LATEX font selection scheme is to be found in The LaTeX Companion, Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin, Addison Wesley, 1994. The LATEX font selection scheme is based on TEX, which is described by its developer in The TEXbook, Donald E. Knuth, Addison Wesley, 1986, revised in 1991 to include the features of TEX 3. Sebastian Rahtz's `psnfss` software contains the software for using a large number of Type 1 fonts (including the Adobe Laser Writer 35 and the Monotype CD-ROM fonts) in LATEX. It should be available from the same source as your copy of LATEX. The `psnfss` software uses fonts generated by Alan Jeffrey's `fontinst` software. This can convert fonts from Adobe Font Metric format into a format readable by LATEX, including the generation of the font definition files described in Section 4. The `fontinst` software should be available from the same source as your copy of LATEX. Whenever practical, LATEX uses the font naming scheme called `fontname'; this was described in Filenames for fonts, TUGboat 11(4), 1990.

The class-writer's guide LaTeX2e for Class and Package Writers describes the new LATEX features for writers of document classes and packages and is kept in `clsguide.tex`. Configuring LATEX is covered by the guide Configuration options for LaTeX2e in `cfgguide.tex` whilst the philosophy behind our policy on modifying LATEX is described in Modifying LaTeX in `modguide.tex`. We are gradually turning the source code for LATEX into a LATEX document LaTeX: the program. This document includes an index of LATEX commands and can be typeset from `source2e.tex`. For more information about TEX and LATEX, please contact your local TEX Users Group, or the international TEX Users Group. Here are some useful addresses.

> TEX Users Group, P.O. Box 1239, Three Rivers, CA 93271-1239, USA
> Fax: +1 209 561 4584 Email: `tug@mail.tug.org` UK TUG, 1 Eymore Close, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 4LB, UK
> Fax: +44 121 476 2159 Email: `uktug-enquiries@tex.ac.uk`

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