I. BASICS 1. Introduction 1.1 Just what is LaTeX? 1.2 Markup Languages 1.3 TEX and its offspring 1.4 How to use this book 1.5 Basics of a LaTeX file 1.6 TEX processing procedure 1.7 Sample LaTeX file 2. Text, Symbols, and Commands 2.1 Command names and arguments 2.2 Environments 2.3 Declarations 2.4 Lengths 2.5 Special characters 2.6 Exercises 2.7 Fine-tuning text 2.8 Word division 3. Document Layout and Organization 3.1 Document class 3.2 Page style 3.3 Parts of the document 3.4 Table of contents 4. Displaying Text 4.1 Changing font style 4.2 Centering and indenting 4.3 Lists 4.4 Generalized lists 4.5 Theorem-like declarations 4.6 Printing literal text 4.7 Comments within text 5. Text in Boxes 5.1 Boxes 5.2 Footnotes and marginal notes 6. Tables 6.1 Tabulator stops 6.2 Tables 7. Mathematical Formulas 7.1 Mathematical environments 7.2 Main elements of math mode 7.3 Mathematical symbols 7.4 Additional elements 7.5 Fine-tuning mathematics 7.6 Beyond standard LaTeX 8. Graphics Inclusion and Color 8.1 The graphics packages 8.2 Adding color 9. Floating tables and figures 9.1 Float placement 9.2 Postponing floats 9.3 Style parameters for floats 9.4 Float captions 9.5 Float examples 9.6 References to figures and tables in text 9.7 Some float packages 10. User Customizations 10.1 Counters 10.2 Lengths 10.3 User-defined commands 10.4 User-defined environments 10.5 Some comments on user-defined structures II. BEYOND THE BASICS 11. Document Management 11.1 Processing parts of a document 11.2 In-text references 11.3 Bibliographies 11.4 Keyword index 12. Bibliographic Databases and BibTeX 12.1 The BibTeX program 12.2 Creating a bibliographic database 12.3 Customizing bibliography styles 13. PostScript and PDF 13.1 LaTeX and PostScript 13.2 Portable Document Format 14. Multilingual LaTeX 14.1 The babel system 14.2 Contents of the language.dat file 15. Math Extensions with AMS-LaTeX 15.1 Invoking AMS-LaTeX 15.2 Standard features of AMS-LaTeX 15.3 Further AMS-LaTeX packages 15.4 The AMS fonts 16. Drawing with LaTeX 16.1 The picture environment 16.2 Extended pictures 16.3 Other drawing packages 17. Presentation Material 17.1 Slide production with slides class 17.2 Slide production with seminar 17.3 Slide production with the prosper class 17.4 Electronic documents for screen viewing 17.5 Special effects with PDF 18. Letters 18.1 The LaTeX letter class 18.2 A house letter style 18.3 A model letter customization APPENDICES A: The New Font Selection Scheme A.1 Font attributes under NFSS A.2 Simplified font selection A.3 Font encoding B: Installing and Maintaining LaTeX B.1 Installing LaTeX B.2 Obtaining the Adobe euro fonts B.3 TeX directory structure B.4 The CTAN servers B.5 Additional standard files B.6 The various LaTeX files C: Error Messages C.1 Basic structure of error messages C.2 Some sample errors C.3 List of LaTeX error messages C.4 TeX error messages C.5 Warnings C.6 Search for subtle errors D: LaTeX Programming D.1 Class and package files D.2 LaTeX programming commands D.3 Changing preprogrammed text D.4 Direct typing of special letters D.5 Alternatives for special symbols D.6 Managing code and documentation E. LaTeX and the World Wide Web E.1 Converting to HTML E.2 The Extensible Markup Language: XML F: Obsolete LaTeX F.1 The 2.09 preamble F.2 Font selection F.3 Obsolete means obsolete G: Command Summary G.1 Brief description of the LaTeX commands G.2 Summary tables and figures Bibliography Index