Local TeX and LaTeX information

Documents can incorporate graphics and they can be previewed using xdvi and converted to Postscript for printing using dvips.

A dozen printer fonts are available. The screen previewer xdvi now has the capability to display these fonts as well as embedded Postscript graphics.

Use the following guides to help you prepare TeX and LaTeX documents. Paper copies of most are available in Burton 303; you can read them online by clicking on the title. (Some of the online versions are DVI files; to read them your browser must be able to "spawn an external viewer".)

• Local guides
  • Running TeX and LaTeX on Mathematics UNIX Machines
  • Putting Mathematica Graphics in TeX Files on Mathematics UNIX Machines
  • A LaTeX2e Sampler; Appendix: Font Samples
• General information
  • Glossary of LaTeX symbols (by Carlos Rodriguez at SUNY Albany)
  • DVIPS Manual: Convert TeX documents to PostScript for printing
  • MakeIndex: An Index Processor for LaTeX
  • The LaTeX2HTML Translator: Convert LaTeX documents to HTML. Press here to read the HTML version
  • LaTeX3 Information
  • ASTeX, a macro package for handling Mathematica graphics in LaTeX
  • LaTeX2e for Authors
  • Issues of LaTeX News (DVI files) 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12
• American Mathematical Society TeX and LaTeX
  • The AMS-TeX User's Guide (Version 2.1)
  • The AMS-LaTeX User's Guide (Version 1.2)
  • The amsmath package (Successor of the amstex package)
  • The main document classes (amsart, amsproc, amsbook)
  • The theorem package (amsthm)
  • The upref package for the \ref command
  • The bold symbol package (amsbsy)
  • The commutative diagram package (amscd)
  • The amsopn package for defining new math operators
  • The amstext package for the \text command in math formulas
  • The extra symbols package (amsxtra)
• Fonts
  • Font Selection Guide A guide to the standard fonts
  • Guide to AMS-Fonts Extra math and special fonts
  • The ccfonts packageThe Concrete Roman fonts
  • The concmath packageThe Concrete math and text fonts, a complete alternative to the standard Computer Modern fonts for TeX and LaTeX
  • Cyrillic Fonts in LaTeX
• For advanced users:
  • LaTeX2e Classes and Packages A guide for writers of classes and packages
  • Configuration options
  • Modifying LaTeX
  • The amsgen package in AMS-TeX

• LaTeX: A Document Preparation System, by Leslie Lamport; second edition, 1994
• The LaTeX Companion, by Michel Goosens, Frank Mittelbach, and Alexander Samarin, 1994

There is a large collection of TeX resources available by FTP at Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) hosts. Here is a list of current CTAN hosts.