TeX for the Beginner

I. Starting Out. . . . .1

1. Starting Out. . . . .3

2. TeX's Special Characters. . . . .13

3. Getting a Printout. . . . .27

4. Adjusting Awkward Line Breaks. . . . .41

II. Onto the Slopes. . . . .49

5. Making New Control Sequences. . . . .51

6. A Smorgasbord of Fonts. . . . .65

7. Making Your Text Larger or Smaller. . . . .75

8. Shaping Your White Space. . . . .83

9. Skips: Creating New White Space. . . . .97

10. Glue: Space That Can Stretch and Shrink. . . . .105

11. How TeX Makes a Page. . . . .115

II. Down We Go!. . . . .121

12. Quotations: Three Basic Macro Structures. . . . .123

13. Changing Your Paragraph Margins. . . . .133

14. Making Lists. . . . .143

15. Hanging Indentation. . . . .155

16. Obeying Lines and Spaces: Verse and Computer Code. . . . .163

17. Headings: for Sections, Chapters, and Title Pages. . . . .173

18. Headers and Footers. . . . .181

19. Footnotes. . . . .189

20. Alignment: Making Tables. . . . .195

21. Putting Headings in Your Tables. . . . .209

22. Drawing Lines (Rules) in Your Tables. . . . .219

23. Tables and Figures, Both Floating and Stationary. . . . .227

24. Using Math Mode. . . . .237

25. Math Mode Symbols. . . . .249

26. Fractions and Multiline Math Displays. . . . .263

27. Fonts for Math Mode. . . . .277

IV. Steeper Slopes. . . . .283

28. Boxes. . . . .285

29. Controlling the Size of your Boxes. . . . .295

30. Moving Your Boxes. . . . .305

31. Drawing Lines (Rules) in Your Text. . . . .311

32. Adjusting Awkward Page Breaks. . . . .319

33. How TeX Works: Modes, Tokens, Mouth, and Stomach. . . . .327

V. Back at the Lodge. . . . .337

34. Bug Diagnosis: Tips and Strategies. . . . .339

35. Bug Diagnosis: Symptoms and Error Messages. . . . .349

A. Font Tables. . . . .361

B. TeX's Reporters. . . . .371

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