TEX: starting from 1

TEX is the program for printing high quality mathematical

text to which all others are compared. It is flexible enough

to be used on many different computer architectures and

operating systems ranging from microcomputers to mainframes.

In a relatively short period of time it has become the

standard tool for mathematical typesetting at practically

all major universities. The versality of TEX has allowed it

to be used in a wide variety of applications; for example,

it is used for publishing scholarly journals which adhere to

the highest typesetting standards, and also to publish

student papers and theses.

This book is designed for the complete newcomer to TEX. It

starts by showing how to typeset simple text that mostly

uses the defaults predefined by TEX. By use of graded

exercises, the situations covered slowly become more complex

and include many different types of mathematical

constructions and tables. In the end it is possible to

handle almost any standard mathematical situation.

The different tables presented in this book allow it to be

used as a quick reference. The similar features of TEX are

gathered together whenever possible to give an overview that

is a good foundation forbecoming more proficient and for

doing more creative typesetting.

This book can be used either as a tool to learn just enough

TEX to write standardmathematical papers of modest

complexity or as a building block to prepare for more

ambitious typesetting projects.