| Short Contents | 6 |
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| Contents | 8 |
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| Foreword | 19 |
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| Preface to the Fourth Edition | 22 |
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| Acknowledgments | 24 |
| Introduction | 25 |
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| Is this book for you? | 25 |
| What is document markup? | 25 |
| The three layers | 26 |
| The three platforms | 26 |
| What s in the book? | 27 |
| Mission statement | 29 |
| Conventions | 29 |
| Short Course | 31 |
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| Your LATEX | 32 |
| 1.1 Your computer | 32 |
| 1.2 Sample files | 33 |
| 1.3 Editing cycle | 33 |
| 1.4 Three productivity tools | 34 |
| Typing text | 36 |
| 2.1 The keyboard | 37 |
| 2.2 Your first note | 38 |
| 2.3 Lines too wide | 41 |
| 2.4 More text features | 42 |
| Typing math | 45 |
| 3.1 A note with math | 45 |
| 3.2 Errors in math | 47 |
| 3.3 Building blocks of a formula | 50 |
| 3.4 Displayed formulas | 55 |
| Your first article and presentation | 62 |
| 4.1 The anatomy of an article | 62 |
| 4.2 An article template | 71 |
| 4.3 On using LATEX | 75 |
| 4.4 Converting an article to a presentation | 80 |
| Text and Math | 86 |
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| Typing text | 87 |
| 5.1 The keyboard | 88 |
| 5.2 Words, sentences, and paragraphs | 90 |
| 5.3 Commanding LATEX | 93 |
| 5.4 Symbols not on the keyboard | 100 |
| 5.5 Comments and footnotes | 111 |
| 5.6 Changing font characteristics | 114 |
| sample text | 119 |
| 5.7 Lines, paragraphs, and pages | 121 |
| 5.8 Spaces | 128 |
| 5.9 Boxes | 133 |
| Text environments | 142 |
| 6.1 Some general rules for displayed text environments | 143 |
| 6.2 List environments | 143 |
| 6.3 Style and size environments | 148 |
| 6.4 Proclamations (theorem-like structures) | 149 |
| 6.5 Proof environments | 156 |
| 6.6 Tabular environments | 158 |
| 6.7 Tabbing environments | 166 |
| 6.8 Miscellaneous displayed text environments | 168 |
| Typing math | 175 |
| 7.1 Math environments | 176 |
| 7.2 Spacing rules | 178 |
| 7.3 Equations | 180 |
| 7.4 Basic constructs | 181 |
| 7.5 Delimiters | 190 |
| 7.6 Operators | 194 |
| 7.7 Math accents | 200 |
| 7.8 Stretchable horizontal lines | 202 |
| 7.9 Formula Gallery | 204 |
| More math | 211 |
| 8.1 Spacing of symbols | 211 |
| 8.2 Building new symbols | 216 |
| 8.3 Math alphabets and symbols | 219 |
| 8.4 Vertical spacing | 224 |
| 8.5 Tagging and grouping | 225 |
| 8.6 Miscellaneous | 228 |
| Multiline math displays | 231 |
| 9.1 Visual Guide | 231 |
| 9.2 Gathering formulas | 235 |
| 9.3 Splitting long formulas | 236 |
| 9.4 Some general rules | 239 |
| 9.5 Aligned columns | 243 |
| 9.6 Aligned subsidiary math environments | 251 |
| 9.7 Adjusted columns | 255 |
| 9.8 Commutative diagrams | 264 |
| 9.9 Adjusting the display | 266 |
| Document Structure | 268 |
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| LATEX documents | 269 |
| 10.1 The structure of a document | 270 |
| 10.2 The preamble | 271 |
| 10.3 Top matter | 273 |
| 10.4 Main matter | 273 |
| 10.5 Back matter | 283 |
| 10.6 Visual design | 290 |
| The AMS article document class | 293 |
| 11.1 Why | 293 |
| ? | 293 |
| 11.2 The top matter | 295 |
| 11.3 The sample article | 307 |
| 11.4 Article templates | 316 |
| 11.5 Options | 319 |
| 11.6 The AMS packages | 322 |
| Legacy document classes | 325 |
| 12.1 Articles and reports | 325 |
| 12.2 Letters | 330 |
| 12.3 The LATEX distribution | 332 |
| Presentations and PDFDocuments | 336 |
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| PDF documents | 337 |
| 13.1 PostScript and | 337 |
| 13.2 Hyperlinks for LATEX | 339 |
| Presentations | 344 |
| 14.1 Quick and dirty | 345 |
| 14.2 Baby | 352 |
| 14.3 The structure of a presentation | 369 |
| 14.4 Notes | 374 |
| 14.5 Themes | 375 |
| 14.6 Planning your presentation | 377 |
| 14.7 What did I leave out? | 377 |
| Customization | 380 |
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| Customizing LATEX | 381 |
| 15.1 User-defined commands | 382 |
| 15.2 Us
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