Essential LaTeX on Athena (AC-50)

Table of Contents

(Answers to Common Questions About LaTeX)

Introduction
Producing a Simple Document
... Creating a Manuscript File
... Processing Your Document
... Previewing Your Document
... Printing Your Document
Doing More With Your Document
... Preamble Commands: Changing Defaults
... ... Font Families
... ... Changing the Margins
... ... Double Spacing
... Making a Title Page
... Chapters, Sections, and Subsections
... Environments: LaTeX Command Syntax
... ... Font Faces
... ... Font Sizes
... ... Centering
... ... Quotations
... ... Lists
... ... Footnotes
... Punctuation
... ... Special Punctuation
... ... Quotation Marks
... ... Dashes
... ... Horizontal Spacing
... Foreign Symbols
Formatting Mathematical Formulas
... Math in Running Text
... Superscripts and Subscripts
... ... Fractions
... ... Greek Letters
... ... Square Roots
... ... Other Symbols
... Displayed Math
... ... The Displaymath Environment
... ... The Equation Environment
Errors in Processing
... Memory Problems
... ``File Not Found''
... Dealing with Errors
Sample Files