Copyright (C) Michel Gossens, Frank Mittelbach
Errata list for:
@book(A-W:GMS94,
author = Michel Goossens and Frank Mittelbach and
Alexander Samarin,
title = The LATEX Companion,
publisher = Addison-Wesley,
address = Reading, Massachusetts,
year = 1994,
pagenums = 530 + 30,
bibliography = yes,
index = yes,
isbn = 0-201-54199-8,
)
If you find further errors please send them to
mittelbach@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de
Version: 19 Sep 1994
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========== General ==============
========== Front matter ===========
========== Chapter 1 ==============
-* Page 2, 3rd paragraph (FMi)
Replace "in the public domain" with "free of charge"
as TeX is copyrighted by Donald E. Knuth and *NOT* public domain.
* Page 2, 4th paragraph (UVi)
In the book title `TeX and METAFONT ...', the METAFONT logo should
be in italic.
========== Chapter 2 ==============
-* Page 14, l. 8 (CKr)
Add missing "be": it will be assumed to the
-* Page 14 (FMi)
Replace last para with:
Finally, when the document is reached, all global options are
checked to see whether each of them has been used by any package; if
not, you will get a warning message. It is usually a spelling mistake
if your option name is never used; another possibility is the removal
of a usepackage command loading a package that used this
option.
* Page 17. (JSa)
At the end of 2.1.2, the text in the correct sequence lacks
context
* Page 18, second para (FMi)
In the front matter to so-called starred form of the sectioning
commands is normally used.
-* Page 23, the footnote (UVi)
there is a spurious space between TeX and book.
* Page 31, Table 2.3 (GSa)
References(default References) should appear in the table
* Page 37, l.6 below Table (FMi)
A new version of the package now supports ``short'' extensions for
use in operating systems like DOS.
-* Page 41 (FMi)
Remove the in the example since it does not serve
any purpose.
* Page 41 (JSa)
Last paragraph starting with ``will produce a #o#>nly
when...'' is ambiguous or misleading
========== Chapter 3 ==============
-* Page 48, third para (FMi)
Add the following sentence: Note, that accented characters have to be
surrounded by braces like this: {\"a}.
-* Page 50, first para (FMi)
Remove this sentence "They are optional features ..." since
the new version of ulem activates them automatically.
-* Page 50, example (RBa)
Replace: "The has 50 states." with "was unified in 1707."
* Page 68 (PvO)
should be (in the box)
* Page 69 (PvO)
: I find that confusing, although I guess it is just
the way the package works. The problem is that the required
argument is NOT the first number that you see, but the first number
you see = req.arg+opt.arg-1. Maybe the description can include a
warning about this.
* Page 71, figure 3.7 (PvO)
is missing in the figure
-* Page 75, 2 para (FMi)
Replace "accumulated in memory" by "accumulated in the external file"
-* Page 75, 3 para (FMi)
Drop "in memory" since the text is stored externally.
* Page 80, last two paras from 3.5.5 (FMi)
Since ftnright.sty is now updated for LaTeX2e the last two paragraphs
can be dropped.
========== Chapter 4 ==============
* Page 89, l. 10 (FMi)
portrait and landscape should be in typewriter font since they are actual
keywords for the optional "orient" argument of
* Page 92 para 4, l. 4 (CKr)
replace: "styles is concerned" with "styles are concerned"
========== Chapter 5 ==============
* Page 106 (TMa,FMi)
Last line before footnote, in the > command:
The 4th `' should be a `'
-* Page 108 (WLe)
The relation between the two parts of the first sentence
... you must not only make sure ... but that ...
easier to typeset
is not very clear
* Page 120 following (FPo)
Shouldn't Table 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 and 5.7 (and perhaps others) better be
Figures, like a lot of other examples presenting tabulated LaTeX output?
* Page 122 (FMi)
It could be helpful to explicitly mention that one shouldn't use
together with longable since longtable needs to write to the aux file.
It would be even better if longtable would dectect this problem.
* Page 128 (FMi)
Replace:
(20) Number of rows per chunk (TeX counter)
with
LTchunksize (20) Number of rows per chunk (LaTeX counter)
Both is correct but why mention the TeX version?
========== Chapter 6 ==============
* Page 143, l8 from bottom (MOh)
It should read "you can prevent" instead of "you can prevents"
-* Page 145 l.11 (TMa)
`ignoreed' should be `ignored'
* Page 148 (WLe)
Fig 6.1: The left and right sides do not correspond in detail
* Page 153, para 2, l.3 (KCr)
Replace: (defined by default as (0)
with: , defined by default as (0) ,
========== Chapter 7 ==============
-* Page 164 Figure 7.6 (TMa)
The 10pt font is actually Lucida Bright and the magnified
one Computer Modern 5 pt, so it whould be better to use CMR twice
-* Page 167 (PAp)
If you used ... should read: If you use ...
* Page 174 third para (UVi)
Computer Modern Typewriter has not even bold extended series only
medium.
-* Page 174 fourth para (CMi)
Replace by:
An example in which some default values are changed can be found in
the chapter about PostScript (section 11.9.6 on page 339).
-* Page 182 (FJe)
Table 7.6 is incomplete. Nowadays there is the following set of fonts
available from labrea.stanford.edu:
Concrete Roman medium: ccr5 ccr6 ccr7 ccr8 ccr9 ccr10
Concrete Roman medium italic: ccti10
Concrete Roman medium slanted: ccsl9 ccsl10
Concrete Roman medium caps and small caps: cccsc10
Concrete Roman condensed slanted: ccslc9
Concrete Math medium italic: ccmi10
Concrete Math condensed italic: ccmic9
-* Page 182 (WLe)
Table 7.7: Examples of Pandora fonts are incorrect:
Pandora Roman bold is typeset in (again) Pandora Roman medium
Pandora Sans is typeset in Pandora Roman slanted
Pandora Sans bold is typeset in Pandora Roman bold
* Page 185, l.4 (CMi)
Replace chose by choose
* Page 196, second para from bottom (CMi)
Since a size function can have both an optional and a mandatory argument
this para should speak about arguments in plural (two occasions)
* Page 203 (FMi)
The starting letters T, O, M, and S are reserved for standard encodings
J * Page 206, top (FMi)
Replace the sentence: In fact, only the ....
by: If the encoding of the font is unknown to NFSS it must be first
declared with in the package file. The
other two declaration can, in fact, alternatively be placed
into a .fd file.
* Page 208, l.6 (CMi)
Replace: "you can define them" by "you can define it"
since the math alphabet and not the letters are defined.
* Page 211 (FMi)
In explanation for "Checking defaults for <cdp>/<font shape>
replace by .
========== Chapter 8 ==============
-* Page 214 (FMi)
Remove second reference to Graetzer's book ([95]).
-* Page 217 (GSa)
Note that the Companion uses Lucida math fonts which contain the
standard LaTeX and AmS symbols but with different shapes compared
to the Computer Modern math fonts.
-* Page 236, l.2 bottom (FMi)
Start a new sentence at: Each one is ...
-* Page 241 (FMi)
Say that righttag is an option to the amstex package.
-* Page 243 (GGr,FMi)
To the entries for amscd and amssymb add:
This package is not automatically included by the amstex package.
-* Page 250 (TMa)
Just before Section 8.7.6: `align*' should be `align'
like it says in the text.
-* Page 256 (FMi)
Replace: All these parameters are expressed as lengths ...
with: All these are length parameters ...
========== Chapter 9 ==============
* Page 261 (FMi)
"to the 256-bit DC-font glyphs" should better read:
"to the 256 glyphs of a DC-font"
* Page 264 (WLe)
Bottom of page: The example at the end "Drucker bzw. Druk-ker" etc.
are not very useful, since they don't show the commands.
* Page 264 (PvO)
The footnote text is confusing (I have to read it twice to
understand). I suggest that it says: Note that the original package
in incompatible..
* Page 267, table 9.2 (JBr)
Macro is actually called in BABEL
========== Chapter 10 =============
-* Page 277 (PvO)
Better use .
Also show in the example that you don't use the default of 10pt.
-* Page 277 (FMi)
In the first printing we used some modified version of the shadow
package (with unofficial names). In the second printing we somehow
got it wrong again (the last shadow box is suposed to have a
larger shadow), sigh. it Should read:
in the example.
* Page 282 (FMi)
In the syntax box for (x-.... show the space after the )
better explicitly. It is needed!
========== Chapter 11 =============
-* Page 318 (FMi)
Remove the double quotes around clip= and the quotes around = in
the explanation of the clip parameter.
-* Page 321 (FPo)
The caption for figure 11.4 could use some negative space between
"Pre-" and "1991".
* Page 328, description of (MOh)
...the beginning of the region, which has to be flagged...
^no comma needed here
-* Page 331 (BBe)
first figure using , the dashes formed by
...–– ...
segment into an emdash and a hyphen; just a tad peculiar looking.
* Page 335, last line of 11.9.2 (CMi)
Replace Symbols by Symbol since that is the name of the font.
* Page 337 (FMi)
Replace "Style" by "Package" in heading.
* Page 338 (WLe)
Greek example, why not better use ... ALFA ...
========== Chapter 12 =============
* Page 350, first examples (FMi)
The last line of the first examples should read
otherwise MakeIndex would complain about it.
* Page 350, 4 l. from bottom (FMi)
Replace rose with rose. Not wrong but better.
* Page 354 (PvO)
The example should show a command.
* Page 354 (FMi)
The lefthand side of the example should use the verbatim environment
not the verbatimcmd environment which is only defined when the moreverb
package is used. Also the example should show
* Page 355 (PvO)
It should say:
-o ind Take the file ind as the output index file.
* Page 355 (PvO)
It should say:
-t log Use log as the transcript file.
* Page 358 (PvO)
The description of escape is very confusing.
(FMi:) agreed. how about
symbol without special meaning unless followed by the quote
character in which case that character looses its special function
and both will be printed.
* Page 358 (FMi)
Replace
(s) signals an attribute of type string, (c) of type char
with
(s) attribute of type string, (c) of type char (surround with single or
double quotes, respectively)
* Page 358, end of first para (FMi)
Add: Makeindex uses UNIX string syntax in the style file. For this
reason one has to enter
to get a single in the output.
* Page 359 (PvO)
Description of delim_t is missing.
* Page 364 (RWo)
Remind the reader how to use a file not ending with .idx with
Makeindex.
* Page 366 (WLe)
According to the text on page 365, The index in the example should
have three columns instead of two.
* Page 385, line 7 (PvO)
"only works without modifications on UNIX" is probably a bit too
harsh: It is meant that modifications are necessary for systems
such as MS-DOS that have limited filenames. By the way should UNIX
not be typeset with small capitals?
========== Chapter 13 =============
* Page 378 (UVi)
The table of .bst files list some styles named phxxx.bst, where xxx
stands for abbreviations like aip, nf, pf, ppcf etc. On CTAN these
styles are now located in a subdirectory phy-bstyles and they no
longer carry the prefix ph in their name. It would be a good idea
to update this in the Companion, because otherwise people looking
for the names with the famous 'quote site index' might not find
them.
Comment (FMi): I'm right now reluctant to change anything since i wonder
whether those names will stay. It seems wrong to me that the names
(prefix) have changed.
* Page 378 (UVi)
(ph)ppcf.bst is described as ``a physics version of the apalike
BibTeX style''. This might be true somehow, but a better
describtion would be ``BibTeX style for Plasma Physics and
Controlled Fusion'', since that is the name of the journal the
abbreviation ppcf stands for (see physjabb).
(ph)report.bst is described as ``BibTeX style for internal
reports''. It might be a good idea to add some hint that this
probably refers to the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab or Princeton
University.
* Page 388, caption (RSt)
For "advisable precedure" read "advisable procedure".
* Page 403 (MOl)
A comma is missing after: @article(tub-87,
* Page 413, add.period (PvO)
Should read: adds dot to string unless that string ends with `.',
`?', or `!'
========== Chapter 14 =============
-* Page 426, line 4 of section 14.2.7. (PAp)
You should run the file thought ...
should read:
You should run the file through ...
* Page 429 (FMi)
Replace the heading: Document structure and validation support
by: Document structure commands
* Page 433, 6 para (FMi)
Not only NFSS2 but the whole LaTeX (2e) is now distributed using
the doc system.
========== Appendix A =============
-* Page 440, second example (FMi)
It should better be:
-* Page 440 (RWo)
Use the same formula in the last two examples to show the advantage
of bbetter.
* Page 476 (FMi)
Add to the description of :
It also defines thenewctrto be 0.
* Page 447 (MSc)
A counter can't be larger than 9 if used with 
.
* Page 477 (FMi)
All the 0... commands in the examples should be defined with
.
* Page 450, table A.2 (FMi)
is better described as a "rubber space" not a rubber length
* Page 456, last para (FMi)
Replace: "In the case below" by "In the next case" since the next
example is on the following page
-* Para 459 (FMi)
Add "x333x" after
in the example (just cosmetics).
-* Page 461, table A.4 (WLe)
For read n the explanation of . * Page 470 following (CRo) In the description of the ifthen package, no clear distinction is made between those commands which can be used only in a test-argument, and those which are for other uses.-* Page 472 (RWo) The index entries in the .idx file would actually look like this (remove the surplus "page:AAAA1" in the middle of them): AAAA!both472 AAAA!indexentry472 AAAA!indexonly472========== Appendix B ============= * Page 479 (BBe) under b.2 mail servers i am irked by the difference in the depth of the underline under "end" right after "send help"; maybe you could be persuaded to use a strut? (BBe)========== Bibliography =========== * Page 491 (RWo) The name is Peter Vollenweider; somebody inverted the `w'—mea culpa.========== Index ================== (BBe) i was a little surprised to find the listing for "tex users group" where one would expect to find "tug" in the index, although "tug" doesn't appear in the entry. i also would have expected to see p.260 listed with that entry, considering the reference there to the twgmlc and the portland meeting. the people who were acknowledged in the preface don't show up in the index. although it's not necessary, of course, knuth did include his acknowledgees and sources of quotes in the texbook index, so there's a precedent. * (FMi) There should be entries for all encodings, OT1, T1, OML, OMS, OMX, at least to page 192, perhaps to others.-* Page 497 (GGr) Add entry for "Blackboard bold" pointing to page 218 Also add one pointing to page 208 (MPi) And add a similar entry for (MPi) * Page 501 (FMi) should have bold entry to page 203.-* Page 506 (CRo) Add index entry for "Fragile command" and "Commands, fragile" to point to 246 and 471 * Page 509 (PvO,FMi) Reference 249 for should be 248. (This is probably true for other entries pointing to the example section of chapter 8, because index entries to the examples are placed after the example.) * Page 520 (PvO) Reference 249 for should be 248.========== Production Notes =======*********************************** ** Errors in first printing ** ***********************************========== General ===========* Some source files in the LaTeX2e distribution have got new names,for example latex.tex -> lt....dtx (many files). The finaldistribution is still under construction.========== Front matter ===========-* Title Page Drop IPS, from affiliation of Samarin (just leave ISO)-* Copyright page Add second printing-* Table of Contents, Page xviii 10.5 should read "Packages Based on epic-* Table of Contents, Page xxi Page number of Bibliography should be 481-* Table of Contents, Page xxiii 5.8 A comparison (not A Comparison)========== Chapter 1 ===========-* Page 3 last para (SKi) files containing the structures and layout definitions (extension .sty) should also include extension .cls-* Page 4 (JSa) Add clo to LaTeX layout & structure file extensions-* Page 5 third par (GGr) In Textures, the transcript file has no extension.========== Chapter 2 ===========-* Page 13 (PHa) 4th bullet item: define your own (not OUR own)-* Page 15 (JSa) 1994/08/02 should also be 1994/08/01-* Page 29 (NPo) fig 2.9: braces round argument `title' and `toc_entry' missing. (very strange this)-* Page 37, l.6 below Table (GGr) Extension .mtc<N> will not work in DOS (Windows). -* Page 44 (JSa,FMi) The default for was missing. Also changed the local adaption example to use a reference to Appendix A.========== Chapter 3 ===========-* Page 48 (LLa) The paragraph above the example unfortunately doesn't describe theexample any longer, it describes an old version of it.-* Page 52 (OBa) should be (3 lines above title 3.1.5...)-* Page 52 (SKi) The multispace package was written by Stephen (not Stephan) Page.-* Page 59 (FMi) The representation of is missing. This seems to bea``correction'' of the printer people since the dot is in thePostScript file!-* Page 62 (MGo) More general (and more correct) description of general listparameters. Especially the relation between the andlengths are made clearer.-* Page 65 (DCa) The labels in the Mentry env are aligned on the top of their *boxes*not on their first baselines. (A buggy implementation onthe way to LaTeX2e)-* Page 67 (NPo) [...] instead of [...] since wedescribe an environment-* Page 70 (FMi) verbatimwrite is incorrectly mentioned as a command but it is anenvironment. Also correct index entry.-* Page 71 (DCa) stepping the mpfootnote countershould be stepping the footnote counter========== Chapter 4 ===========-* Page 86 (FMi) testpage.tex in LaTeX2e now asks interactively for the paper yourprinter uses so there isn't any need to use testa4.tex any longer.-* Page 94-95 (FMi) Replace para starting at the bottom with:The marking commands work reasonably well for right markers ``numberedwithin'' left markers (for example, when the left marker is changed bya chapter command and the right marker is changed by asection command). However, it produces somewhat anomalousresults if a markboth command is preceded by some other markcommand on the same page—see the page receiving L5 R3.2 inFigure fig:pagemarkers. This figure shows schematically whichleft and right markers are generated for pages being shipped out.-* Page 95 (FMi) Replace the last four lines in figure 4.3 with the following five lines: L4 L5 L5R5.1