Contents

An introduction to TEX and friends

List of Tables
Getting acquainted with TEX
The spirit of TEX
TEX is a typesetter, not a word-processor
Typical TEX interfaces

Getting started with LATEX
Why start with LATEX?
LATEX formats, and we compose
Document styles
Preparing a non-mathematical document
Sentences and paragraphs
Punctuation
Ties
Specially reserved symbols
So what are control symbols and words?
Commands to change appearance