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ePiX(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   ePiX(1)

NAME
ePiX - Utilities for creating mathematically accurate figures SYNOPSIS
epix [options] file(s)[.xp] elaps [options] file(s)[.eepic|.xp] laps [options] file(s)[.tex] flix [options] file[.flx] All scripts have built-in (terse and verbose) help. ONLINE RESOURCES
Project page: http://mathcs.holycross.edu/~ahwang/current/ePiX.html Public CVS server: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/epix CTAN: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/epix Mailing lists: http://lists.nongnu.org/mail/?group=epix DOCUMENTATION
Sample files and an extensive tutorial introduction/reference manual come with the source code. Please look in /usr/share/doc/epix for these materials. The documentation can be downloaded separately. Please consult the project page. AUTHOR
Andrew D. Hwang (ahwang -at- mathcs -dot- holycross -dot- edu) Department of Mathematics and Computer Science College of the Holy Cross Worcester, MA 01610-2395, USA January 06, 2004 ePiX(1)

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LDP Introduction(ldp)													     LDP Introduction(ldp)

NAME
LDP - Intro to the Linux Documentation Project, with help, guides and documents SYNOPSIS
The Linux Documentation Project (LDP) provides a variety of free documentation resources including guides, FAQs, HOWTOs, and man-pages to the Linux community. AUTHORS
The various documents in the LDP archives are maintained by individual authors, and are listed in the beginning of each HOWTO. If you have any questions or inputs to a document we encourage you to contact the authors directly. WEB PAGES
The LDP has its own dedicated web site as do many of the various translations projects which are linked from the main LDP web site at http://www.LinuxDoc.org/ which you may wish to bookmark. MAN PAGES
A web page with status information for manual pages and translations is found at http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/man/ MAILING LISTS
LDP has a number of mailing lists, mostly of use to authors: <ldp-announce@lists.LinuxDoc.org> Announcements from the LDP project <ldp-discuss@lists.LinuxDoc.org> General discussion on the LDP project To join these lists send a mail with a body of "subscribe" to <ldp-announce-request@lists.LinuxDoc.org> or <ldp-discuss-request@lists.Lin- uxDoc.org> respectively. These mailing lists are also archived at the LinuxDoc site. FILES
Most distributions include the HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs in the installation /usr/doc/ (old place for documentation) /usr/share/doc/ (new place for documentation) /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/ (HOWTO files) /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/mini/ (mini-HOWTO files) SEE ALSO
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