[MiKTeX] Re: letterspacing.tex (Hans Fredrik Nordhaug)

[Cornelius C. N. <no...@ph...>]

There have been a number of similar questions lately (including
one from myself), and so Hans Nordhaugs answer (repeated below)
provokes a side comment:
  (i) when a newbie to MikTeX follows the advice given, he may be
      floundered by the fact that there is no such thing as a
      "filename search button" in the MiKTeX Package Manager
      window. Of course, simply typing "letterspacing.tex" into
      the "file name:" box does exactly this search; but that may
      not be obvious to a MikTeX newbie,
 (ii) what`s more serious is that you have to give the extension
      (typing in just "letterspacing" wont give an answer), and
      often you don not know whether the package you are looking
      for has the ".tex", ".sty", or something else altogether.

Trying the MikTeX "help" or the MikTeX "FAQ" usually wont help in
such cases, because these are excellent for answering specific
and precisely put questions, but not at helping beginners over
their typical stumbling blocks.

So my comment really boils down to a simple question: is there something
like
              "A Beginners' Guide to using MikTeX",

something in the style of the chapter 2 "Getting Started" of
Leslie Lamports LaTeX manual, e.g.?
If there is, WHERE?
If not: wouldn't it be worthwhile for someone to write it ??

ccn.
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> Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 09:56:01 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Hans Fredrik Nordhaug <ha...@mi...>
> To: TeX Discussion List <mik...@li...>
> Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] letterspacing.tex
> Reply-To: mik...@li...
>
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, R=FCdiger Wapler wrote:
>
> > Dear MiKTeXers,
> >
> > I have seen that letterspacing.tex is listed in the MiKTeX catalogue. I
> > simply cannot figure out in which package (i.e. in which cab-file) this
> > file is contained.
> >
> > Can someone point me in the right direction.
>
> Sorry for the late reply - summer holidays.
>
> Use the MiKTeX Package Manager (or MiKTeX Options) and use the filename
> search. Then you'll find that the correct package is "genmisc".
>
> Hans
>
>