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Learning TeX

• Typesetting with TeX [PDF presentation]
• Basic TeX Rules - short and sweet (2 pages) summary of TeX

• Getting Started with TeX, LaTeX, and friends - from the TeX User's Group (TUG)
• A Gentle Introduction to TeX - longer (96 pages) and easier to understand introduction to TeX
• Learning LaTeX: a course in LaTeX, an on-line course from the University of Birmingham School of Mathematics and Statistics.
• Getting Started with LaTeX , an on-line tutorial by David R. Wilkins at Trinity College, Dublin.

• TeX summarized in the Wikipedia

• Get started with CTAN, Comprehensive TeX Archive Network

TeX on Mac OS X Installing TeX and REVTEX on Mac OS X TeX on Mac OS X TeXshop OzTeX TeX Tools for OS X LaTeX Equation Editor for OS X iTeXMac TeX i-Packages from TUG LyX for MacOS X

TeX on Windows Installing TeX and REVTEX on Windows MikTeX WinEDT Word2TeX Converters between LaTeX and PC Textprocessors LyX for Windows

TeXsis A Plain TeX format with macros intended mainly for physicists, but useful to many more TeXsis - TeX macros for Physicists TeXsis sources:    from TeXsis.org    from CTAN

REVTeX A LaTeX class for manuscripts intended for th journals of the American Physical Society REVTEX 4 Home Page Installing TeX, LaTeX, and REVTeX on your own computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) REVTEX Documentation REVTEX 4 Author's Guide: [PostScript] [PDF] REVTEX 4 Summary [PostScript] [PDF] REVTEX 4 Sample Paper [PostScript] [PDF] [TeX] Vassar Physics 201 sample paper (zip package) modlab.zip and shorter sample templates vjmp-template.tex and vjmp-template.bib

CTAN CTAN is the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network CTAN Home Page - not a direct server, but it will help you find things in the CTAN hierarchy, and then help you find the closest mirror or server. CTAN server at Cambridge, England (also an ftp server) CTAN in Germany (Dante) CTAN server from TUG The TeX Catalogue Online from Graham Williams, CSIRO Australia

TeX User's Group TeX User's Group Home Page TeX User's Group ftp server LaTeX Project UK TeX Frequently Asked Questions

BIBTEX BibTeXing by Oren Patashnik BibDesk, for Mac OS X. How to use BiBTeX

Postscript/Ghostscript/Ghostview About Ghostscript and Ghostview Download Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview About PostScript from InkGuides.com Type-1 Scalable PostSript fonts

DVI files xdvi and gsftopk DVI Driver Implementation and Standardization Issues. dvips source from CTAN

PDF and HyperTeX Pdfmarks: Links and Forms PDF FAQ from Los Alamos HyperTeX info from Los Alamos TeX and PDF from Y & Y. PDF utilities: index from Purdue tth: a TEX to HTML translator pstoedit dvips source from CTAN. Versions of dvips after 5.60 can (supposedly) write hyper-postscript output, which can then be distilled into pdf.

Donald Knuth (creator of TeX) Knuth: Message about TeX fonts Don Knuth's Home Page