Intro
Short Contents
Contents
Foreword
Preface to the Sixth Edition
Introduction
What's this book about?
A quick overview of this book
What is document markup?
The three layers
The three platforms
An outline of the book
Mission statement
Conventions
PART I Mission Impossible
CHAPTER 1 Short course
1.1 Getting started
1.1.1 Your LATEX
1.1.2 Sample files
1.1.3 Editing cycle
1.1.4 Typing the source file
1.2 The keyboard
1.3 Your first text note
1.4 Lines too wide
1.5 A note with formulas 1.6 The building blocks of a formula
1.7 Displayed formulas
1.7.1 Equations
1.7.2 Symbolic referencing
1.7.3 Aligned formulas
1.7.4 Cases
1.8 The anatomy of a document
1.9 Your own commands
1.10 Adding an illustration
1.11 The anatomy of a presentation
CHAPTER 2 And one more thing
2.1 Structure
2.2 Auxiliary files
2.3 Logical and visual design
2.4 General error messages
2.5 Errors in math
2.6 Your errors: Davey's Dos and Don'ts
PART II Text into LATEX
CHAPTER 3 Typing text
3.1 The keyboard
3.1.1 Basic keys
3.1.2 Special keys 3.1.3 Prohibited keys
3.2 Words, sentences, and paragraphs
3.2.1 Spacing rules
3.2.2 Periods
3.3 Commanding LATEX
3.3.1 Commands and environments
3.3.2 Scope
3.3.3 Types of commands
3.4 Symbols not on the keyboard
3.4.1 Quotation marks
3.4.2 Dashes
3.4.3 Ties or nonbreakable spaces
3.4.4 Special characters
3.4.5 Ellipses
3.4.6 Ligatures
3.4.7 Accents and symbols in text
3.4.8 Logos and dates
3.4.9 Hyphenation
3.5 Comments and footnotes
3.5.1 Comments
3.5.2 Footnotes
3.6 Lines, paragraphs, and pages
3.6.1 Lines
3.6.2 Paragraphs 3.6.3 Pages
3.6.4 Multicolumn printing
3.7 Spaces
3.7.1 Horizontal spaces
3.7.2 Vertical spaces
3.7.3 Relative spaces
3.7.4 Expanding spaces
3.8 Boxes
3.8.1 Line boxes
3.8.2 Frame boxes
3.8.3 Paragraph boxes
3.8.4 Marginal comments
3.8.5 Solid boxes
3.8.6 Fine tuning boxes
CHAPTER 4 Text environments
4.1 Some general rules
4.2 List environments
4.2.1 Numbered lists
4.2.2 Bulleted lists
4.2.3 Captioned lists
4.2.4 A rule and combinations
4.3 Style and size environments
4.4 Proclamations (theorem-like structures) 4.4.1 The full syntax
4.4.2 Proclamations with style
4.5 Proof environments
4.6 Tabular environments
4.6.1 Table styles
4.7 Tabbing environments
4.8 Miscellaneous displayed text environments
PART III Fonts for text and math
CHAPTER 5 Font basics
5.1 Shape, size, serif
5.2 Document font families
5.3 Shape commands
5.3.1 Italic corrections
5.3.2 Series
5.4 Size changes
5.5 Orthogonality
5.6 Obsolete two-letter commands
CHAPTER 6 Font encoding
6.1 OT1, T1, . .
6.2 Low-level commands
6.3 PostScript fonts
The Times font and MathTime

For more than 30 years, this comprehensive manual has been the standard introduction and complete reference for writing articles and books containing mathematical formulas. This sixth edition uses a slightly changed title, Text and Math into LaTeX, to emphasize the importance of text in mathematical/scientific composition. Sections that contained commands no longer much needed (such as \includeonly) and the introductory sections to PDF (now ubiquitous) have been omitted. Many sections are now enhanced with discussion of new and useful packages. An occasional encouragement for the reader to consult ChatGPT for confirmation on various points illustrates the positive relationship between ChatGPT and LaTeX. The new Chapter 17 describes recent developments that enhance, or replace, BibTeX; the new Appendix C, introduces the reader to ChatGPT.