LATEX for Word Processor Users version 1.0.6

8 THE HELP MENU 7.4 Tools/Hyphenation7.4 Tools/HyphenationAlthough L A TEX does a good job at hyphenating words, sometimes manual intervention mayyield better results. Manual hyphens are specified inserting \- where we want the word to bebroken. A better way is to declare hyphenation rules:\hyphenation{ge-o-phy-sics, ge-o-lo-gy, earth}The above declaration instructs L A TEX not to hyphen the word ‘earth’. Another way to preventa word to be hyphenated is to put it in \mbox:Do not hyphen \mbox{internationalisation}, please.7.5 Tools/Spell CheckL A TEX is not aware of spell spelling. This task is done using external tools like ispell, aspellor others. Under Unix, you can use ispell this way:shell> ispell -t mydocument.texThe -t switch instructs ispell to ignore TEX and L A TEX commands. If your language is notEnglish, specify the appropriate dictionary with the -d switch:shell> ispell -d italiano -t mydocument.tex8 The Help MenuThere are many ways of getting help with L A TEX, both online and offline. The best place to startis the CTAN site, http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/.• info latex (Unix systems) gives a concise but very complete on-line summary of commandsand concepts;• http://www.giss.nasa.gov/latex/ is a comprehensive on-line reference. Lots of usefullinks!• http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/LatexHelpBook/ is a very nice help systemfor L A TEX, fully integrated with Windows.• don’t forget the news:comp.text.latex newsgroup: it’s an invaluable source of help.Many GNU/Linux distributions ship with teTeX, one of the most complete TEX/L A TEX systems.A lot of documentation is provided, and is usually found in TEXMF/doc. Point your browserthere, and be happy.38