Document Preparation with

(Originally edited by David Budgen)
Edited by Sam Nelson
Department of Computing Science
University of Stirling

February 1990, Revised October 1990

• Postscript version of Latex Guide
• Contents
• Introducing
  • What is
  • How it works
  • This document
  • Other tools
  • Typography and other issues
    • Typographic terms
    • Other reading
• A Simple Example
  • General structure of a document
  • Command formats
  • A simple example
• Structures
  • Introduction
  • Organizing your text
  • Sectioning
  • Displayed material
    • Quotations
    • Verbatim
    • Lists
    • Formulae
  • Changing fonts
  • Footnotes
  • Figures and tables
  • Producing a bibliography
  • Errors
• Structuring a Dissertation
  • Document Design
  • Sectioning into files
    • File hierarchy
    • The include and input options
      • The include command
      • The input command
    • Page numbering
  • Development Strategy
• Generating Bibliographies with
  • Introduction
    • The Bibliographic Database
    • Using with
    • Output from
    • The thebibliography Environment
  • Format of Bibliographic Entries
    • Text Fields
    • Entry Types
      • Fields
  • Additional Information
• Running and dvips
  • 
  • The .dvi (DeVice-Independent) file and post-processing
  • The dvips post-processor
  • Administrative hints
• Previewing Documents
  • Using xdvi
  • xdvi options
    • Options selected when xdvi is invoked
    • Commands used within xdvi
  • Ghostview
• Generating graphics
  • PostScript graphics files
  • Incorporating the image into
  • Example output
  • Conclusion
• Some Hints &Useful References
  • commands
  • Style and Use
  • Ethical and Social Issues
• References
• About this document ...