Contents:

• Why use LaTeX?
• What is TeX?
• TeX Source Files
• How is TeX Used?
• Example Session
• Complexity
• Hands-On in this Course
• Compilation Errors
• Hands On A

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• LaTeX at The University of Manchester
• Some Fundamentals
• LaTeX
• LaTeX Environments
• LaTeX Fonts and Typefaces
• LaTeX Sections, Titles
• LaTeX Letters
• LaTeX Special Symbols
• Hands On B

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• Mathematics!
• Mathematics --- An Extended Example
• Mathematics --- More
• PDFTeX
• Including Graphics in TeX
• BibTeX
• BibTeX --- More
• Hands On C

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Oddments:

• LaTeX 2.09 vs 2e
• (Plain) TeX
• Slides
• Graphical Shells and WYSIWYG
• TeX Resources

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More:

• Fonts
• Metafont
• Unix/Linux Environment Variables
• Programming: Macros

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About this document

An Introduction to TeX and LaTeX

This course has been superceded by this one.
This course has been superceded by this one.

Simon Hood

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A one day course (10:00 -- 16:00) consisting of four "lectures" separated by three hands-on sessions. The middle hands-on session will be combined with lunch.

• The Handout: Postscript; PDF; DVI.
• Hands On Examples
• This course as: gzipped tar-ball.
• Thesis style sheet: zip-ball.

To view this course on-line:

• http://mctalby.mc.man.ac.uk/~isd/_course_tex_intro/

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