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

22. PDFTeX

• Traditional [La]TeX compiles to dvi format. pdf[La]TeX compiles to pdf format.
  
  
• In addition, new primitives for:
  • Hyperlinks, document searching...

Example

pdftex my_file.tex pdflatex my_file.tex

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To find out more get the manual.

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