INDEX

absolute value bars ........................................................................ 31. abutting lines ................................................................................ 3. acknowledgments ............................................................................ ii. algebra of sets ............................................................................. 26. aligning and numbering multiple equations .............................................. 23. ambiguous; you need another ............................................................. 40. ampersand sign .............................................................................. 4. androgynous double quote mark ............................................................ 4.

backslash ................................................................................. 5, 31. baselineskip .................................................................................. 9. basic information about entering equations .............................................. 24. bigskip ....................................................................................... 9. block quotations ........................................................................... 10. block-style format ........................................................................... 6. bold .......................................................................................... 8. books typeset in tex ......................................................................... 2. braces ...................................................................................... 31. brackets .................................................................................... 31. building your tex document .............................................................. 36.

caret ..................................................................................... 5, 27. carriage-returns .............................................................................. 3. case of dvips command line arguments ................................................... 42. case structure .............................................................................. 32. centering text .............................................................................. 11. combination notation ..................................................................... 32. command abbreviations ................................................................... 34. comments .................................................................................... 6. comp.text.tex .............................................................................. 44. computer modern roman font ............................................................ 3, 7. concatenating lines .......................................................................... 3. contents ..................................................................................... iii. control space ............................................................................. 3, 24. converting your .dvi file into postscript .................................................. 41. copyright ..................................................................................... ii. copyright symbol ............................................................................ 5. cube roots ................................................................................. 29.

dagger ........................................................................................ 5. dashes ........................................................................................ 4. decoding tex errors ........................................................................ 38. decoding the table building commands ................................................... 17. decoy.uoregon.edu ........................................................................... ii. dedication .................................................................................... ii. default file extension ...................................................................... 37. default font size family ...................................................................... 7. default margins ............................................................................ 14. default page size ........................................................................... 14. defining tex ................................................................................ 36. defining your own tex commands ......................................................... 34. definitions .................................................................................. 34. differences between tabbing and formal tables ........................................... 17. disclaimers ................................................................................... ii. displayed equations ........................................................................ 21. dollar sign ................................................................................... 4. dotless characters .......................................................................... 27. double dagger ................................................................................ 5. double quad ............................................................................... 24. double quote mark .......................................................................... 4. double subscript ........................................................................... 40. double-spacing ............................................................................... 9. dvips ....................................................................................... 41. dvips features .............................................................................. 42.

editing your tex document ................................................................ 36. ejecting a page ............................................................................. 14. ellipsis ........................................................................................ 4. em-dash ...................................................................................... 4. embedded vs. displayed equations ........................................................ 21. en-dash ...................................................................................... 4. end occurred inside a group at level one ............................................... 8, 39. ending your tex document ................................................................ 14. endnotes ................................................................................... 12. enspace ...................................................................................... 3. entering text ................................................................................. 3. equation spacing ........................................................................... 21. errors ....................................................................................... 39. evenly spaced tab stops ................................................................... 15.

flush left ................................................................................... 11. flush right .................................................................................. 11. font size ...................................................................................... 7. font style ..................................................................................... 8. fonts ........................................................................................ 42. fontsize.tex ................................................................................... 7. footnotes ................................................................................... 12. forcing page breaks ........................................................................ 14. foreign characters ............................................................................ 5. formal ruled tables ........................................................................ 16. forward slashs ............................................................................. 31. fractions ................................................................................... 30.

graphics .................................................................................... 42. greater than sign ............................................................................ 4. greek letters ............................................................................... 25. group ......................................................................................... 8.

hat ....................................................................................... 5, 27. headers ..................................................................................... 13. hfill ......................................................................................... 11. hsize ........................................................................................ 14. hyphen ....................................................................................... 4.

indentation .................................................................................. 6. inferior accents .............................................................................. 5. insertions .................................................................................. 14. integrals .................................................................................... 33. introduction ................................................................................. 1. italic ......................................................................................... 8.

large fractions ............................................................................. 30. large grouping operators .................................................................. 31. leaving space for insertions ............................................................... 14. left curly brace .............................................................................. 5. less than sign ................................................................................ 4. limits ....................................................................................... 29. line spacing ............................................................................... 8, 9. logic symbols .............................................................................. 26. login.com file .............................................................................. 36. lowercase roman numeral page numbers ................................................. 13.

making large fractions ..................................................................... 30. making large grouping operators ......................................................... 31. making new roman font math symbols ................................................... 28. making paragraphs .......................................................................... 6. margins .................................................................................... 14. math accents .............................................................................. 27. mathematical operators ................................................................... 26. matrices .................................................................................... 32. medium space ............................................................................. 24. medskip ...................................................................................... 9. misplaced alignment tab character ....................................................... 40. missing $ inserted ......................................................................... 40. missing number, treated as zero .......................................................... 40. missing text in a document ................................................................. 6. multi-letter tied accents ..................................................................... 5. multiple equation alignment .............................................................. 23.

narrower ................................................................................... 10. negative thin space ........................................................................ 24. new roman font math symbols ............................................................ 30. nopagenumbers ............................................................................ 13. normalbaselineskip .......................................................................... 9. numbering a block of equations ........................................................... 23. numbering equations ...................................................................... 22.

overfull hbox ............................................................................... 39. overprint screens .......................................................................... 42.

page breaks ................................................................................ 14. page counter ............................................................................... 13. page numbers .............................................................................. 13. page size ................................................................................... 14. paragraph symbol ........................................................................... 5. paragraphs ................................................................................... 6. parentheses ................................................................................ 31. percent sign ............................................................................... 4, 6. points ........................................................................................ 7. postscript fonts ............................................................................ 42. postscript graphics ........................................................................ 42. pound sign ................................................................................... 4. prefatory matter page numbering ........................................................ 13. previewing your document on screen ..................................................... 35. printing only certain pages of a document ............................................... 41. printing your postscript output ........................................................... 43. psp ......................................................................................... 43. punctuation .................................................................................. 3.

qquad ........................................................................................ 3. quad ..................................................................................... 3, 24. quote mark .................................................................................. 4.

radicals .................................................................................... 29. redefining tex commands .................................................................. 34. right curly brace ............................................................................. 5. roman font words in math mode ......................................................... 24. roman numeral page numbering .......................................................... 13. roman-font mathematical “words” ....................................................... 28. ruled tables ................................................................................ 16. running tex ................................................................................ 37.

script letters ............................................................................... 25. section symbol ............................................................................... 5. sigmas ...................................................................................... 33. size of subscripts and superscripts ........................................................ 27. skipping a single line ........................................................................ 9. smallskip ..................................................................................... 9. spaces ........................................................................................ 3. spanish punctuation ......................................................................... 5. special characters ............................................................................ 4. special foreign accents/characters .......................................................... 5. square roots ............................................................................... 29. subscripts .................................................................................. 27. summations ................................................................................ 33. superior accents ............................................................................. 5. superscripts ................................................................................ 27. system dependencies ........................................................................ ii.

table body ................................................................................. 20. table headings ............................................................................. 19. table template ............................................................................. 18. tables ...................................................................................... 16. tabs .......................................................................................... 3. tex books .................................................................................. 44. tex on the oregon vax 8800 ............................................................... 35. tex users group ............................................................................ 44. tex-ing your document .................................................................... 37. the tex execution cycle .................................................................... 35. thick space ................................................................................. 24. thin space ................................................................................ 3, 24. tilde .......................................................................................... 5. too many $’s ............................................................................... 39. top of page ................................................................................. 14. trademarks ................................................................................... ii. trigonometric functions ................................................................... 28. tug ......................................................................................... 44. typesetting equations ..................................................................... 21. typesetting formal ruled tables ........................................................... 16. typesetting tabular material .............................................................. 15.

undefined control sequence ................................................................ 38. underbar ..................................................................................... 9. underfull vbox ............................................................................. 39. underlining .................................................................................. 9. underscore ................................................................................... 4. unevenly spaced tab stops ................................................................ 15. uploading your tex document from a micro .............................................. 36. using tabs .................................................................................. 15.

vbox ........................................................................................ 14. vertical bar .............................................................................. 4, 31. vms command history feature ............................................................ 38. vsize ........................................................................................ 14.

wave .......................................................................................... 5. what if I get stuck? ....................................................................... 44. what is tex? ................................................................................. 1. where from here? .......................................................................... 44. white-space .................................................................................. 3. wide math accents ......................................................................... 27.

xerox 4045/160 ........................................................................ 41, 43.

“It made me dizzy. I could not understand enough of it to feel safe. I thought, You could die here, or — trapped inside — go crazy.” Paul Theroux, The Mosquito Coast.

“It’s so easy, easy …” Guns N’ Roses, Appetite for Destruction.