Latexmanual

The Not So Short A Introduction to L TEX 2ε
A Or LTEX 2ε in 141 minutes

by Tobias Oetiker Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna and Elisabeth Schlegl Version 4.26, September 25, 2008

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Thank you!
Much of the material used in this introduction comes from an Austrian A introduction to L TEX 2.09 written in German by: Hubert Partl Irene Hyna
Zentraler Informatikdienst der Universität für Bodenkultur Wien Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung WienElisabeth Schlegl
in Graz

If you are interested in the German document, you can find a version A updated for L TEX 2ε by Jörg Knappen at CTAN://info/lshort/german

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Thank you! The following individuals helped with corrections, suggestions and material to improve this paper. They put in a big effort to help me get this document into its present shape. I would like to sincerely thank all ofthem. Naturally, all the mistakes you’ll find in this book are mine. If you ever find a word that is spelled correctly, it must have been one of the people below dropping me a line.
Rosemary Bailey, Marc Bevand, Friedemann Brauer, Barbara Beeton, Jan Busa, Markus Brühwiler, Pietro Braione, David Carlisle, José Carlos Santos, Neil Carter, Mike Chapman, Pierre Chardaire, Christopher Chin, CarlCerecke, Chris McCormack, Wim van Dam, Jan Dittberner, Michael John Downes, Matthias Dreier, David Dureisseix, Elliot, Hans Ehrbar, Daniel Flipo, David Frey, Hans Fugal, Robin Fairbairns, Jörg Fischer, Erik Frisk, Mic Milic Frederickx, Frank, Kasper B. Graversen, Arlo Griffiths, Alexandre Guimond, Andy Goth, Cyril Goutte, Greg Gamble, Frank Fischli, Morten Høgholm, Neil Hammond, Rasmus Borup Hansen,Joseph Hilferty, Björn Hvittfeldt, Martien Hulsen, Werner Icking, Jakob, Eric Jacoboni, Alan Jeffrey, Byron Jones, David Jones, Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach, Michael Koundouros, Andrzej Kawalec, Sander de Kievit, Alain Kessi, Christian Kern, Tobias Klauser, Jörg Knappen, Kjetil Kjernsmo, Maik Lehradt, Rémi Letot, Flori Lambrechts, Axel Liljencrantz, Johan Lundberg, Alexander Mai, Hendrik Maryns, MartinMaechler, Aleksandar S Milosevic, Henrik Mitsch, Claus Malten, Kevin Van Maren, Richard Nagy, Philipp Nagele, Lenimar Nunes de Andrade, Manuel Oetiker, Urs Oswald, Lan Thuy Pham, Martin Pfister, Demerson Andre Polli, Nikos Pothitos, Maksym Polyakov Hubert Partl, John Refling, Mike Ressler, Brian Ripley, Young U. Ryu, Bernd Rosenlecher, Kurt Rosenfeld, Chris Rowley, Risto Saarelma, HanspeterSchmid, Craig Schlenter, Gilles Schintgen, Baron Schwartz, Christopher Sawtell, Miles Spielberg, Matthieu Stigler, Geoffrey Swindale, Laszlo Szathmary, Boris Tobotras, Josef Tkadlec, Scott Veirs, Didier Verna, Fabian Wernli, Carl-Gustav Werner, David Woodhouse, Chris York, Fritz Zaucker, Rick Zaccone, and Mikhail Zotov.

Preface
A L TEX [1] is a typesetting system that is very suitable for producingscientific and mathematical documents of high typographical quality. It is also suitable for producing all sorts of other documents, from simple letters to A complete books. L TEX uses TEX [2] as its formatting engine. A This short introduction describes L TEX 2ε and should be sufficient for A most applications of L TEX. Refer to [1, 3] for a complete description of the A X system. L TE

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