TeX: starting from 1

Table of Contents

Getting Started...............................................................................1
Running TeX
From TeX file to readable output, the big setup
Let's do it!
Commanding TeX with control words and control symbols
What TeX won't do
Call in the auxilliaries
All characters great and small..............................................................9
Some characters are more special than others
Typesetting with an accent
Dots, dashes, quotes
Different fonts
The shape of things to come..............................................................19
Units, units, units
Page shape
Paragraph shape
Line shape
Footnotes
Headlines and footlines
Overfull and underfull boxes
Groups, Groups, and More Groups.....................................................31
No math anxiety here!.....................................................................33
Lots of new symbols
Similar symbols
Fractions
Subscripts and superscripts
Roots, square and otherwise
Lines, above and below
Delimiters large and small
Those special functions
Hear ye, hear ye!
Matrices
Multilined displayed equations
All in a row.................................................................................49
Picking up the tab
Horizontal alignment with more sophisticated patterns
Rolling your own..........................................................................57
The long and short of it
Filling in with parameters
By any other name
Taking it to the limit
To err is human............................................................................65
The forgotten bye
The misspelled or unknown control sequence
The misnamed font
Mismatched mathematics
Mismatched braces
Digging a little deeper.....................................................................73
Big files, little files
Larger macro packages
Going for the count
Horizontal and vertical lines
Boxes within boxes
Some special additions
I get by with a little help..................................................................85
Control sequence index...................................................................99
Index........................................................................................103
Tables revisited............................................................................107


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