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diff --git a/tutorial/footnote.html b/tutorial/footnote.html deleted file mode 100644 index 0e20367..0000000 --- a/tutorial/footnote.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,27 +0,0 @@ -<HTML> -<TITLE>A footnote about the "mu" character in LaTeX</TITLE> -<BODY BACKGROUND=../giffiles/blpaper.gif> - -It just so happens that although the "mu" -character is encoded into the Adobe fonts, but is not part of any of the -TeX fonts or TeX font encodings of standard Adobe (or TrueType) fonts. -However, it is not strictly true that printing the character is impossible. -I, being the enterprising character that I am, have found a (somewhat -kludgy) workaround: - -<OL> - <LI> First, you must be using one of the PSNFSS packages available under - LaTeX2e, such as "times" (<TT>\usepackage{times}</TT>) - <LI> Next, create the following definition:<BR> - <TT>\def\micro{\special{ps:(µ)show}\nobreak\hspace*{0.55em}}</TT><BR> - (The "mu" character here is the embedded 8-bit character encoding - hex 0xb5, or decimal 181, or octal 0625). - <LI> The <TT>\micro</TT> definition can be used as follows, for example:<BR> - <TT>The correlator measures 700\,{\micro}m $\times$ 1170\,{\micro}m</TT> - <LI> This definition of <TT>\micro</TT> uses a \special{} function defined only - by (as far as I know) <TT>dvips</TT>, so the proper symbol will only show - up after postprocessing the <TT>.dvi</TT> file through <TT>dvips</TT>. -</OL> - -</BODY> -</HTML> |