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

4. How is TeX Used?

• GUI development environments do exist for [La]TeX --- distribution and platform-specific.
• Command line works for all.

Three Steps: Edit, compile, run...

These steps apply always:

1. Edit TeX source file.
2. Compilation --- run tex, latex, pdftex or pdflatex:
   • DVI file;
   • log file.
3. Preview .dvi or .pdf file.
4. Print (may need to convert .dvi file to a printable format, e.g., Postscript, and send to printer).

Font Generation

Its possible that you may see something like...

   kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 1+264/600 
        --dpi 864 cmti10
   mktexpk: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1+264/600; nonstopmode; input cmti10
   This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3.1)

   (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/cmti10.mf
   (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/cmbase.mf)
   (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/textit.mf
   (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/itall.mf [97] [98] [99] [100] [101]
   [102] [103] [104] [105] [106] [107] [108] [109] [110] [111] [112] [113]
   [114] [115] [116] [117] [118] [119] [120] [121] [122])

This is TeX (really METAFONT) building fonts...

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