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=TeX (generally)=
As of October 2007 we are using the 2007 TeX Live distribution of TeX and
related files.
You can browse local documentation on TeX Live and its packages by going to
/~vojta/tex-doc .  Files of particular interest
to beginners include:
* [/~vojta/tex-doc/english/lshort-english/lshort.pdf The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e] -- an introduction to the LaTeX language
* [http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~hildebr/tex/ LaTeX tips]
* [/~vojta/tex-doc/english/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf Table of Mathematical Symbols]

You can also see
[/computing/help/TeX our old TeX help]
instead, but be warned that many of these documents refer to LaTeX 2.09
instead of LaTeX 2e, which is installed here and which has been the
"modern" version of LaTeX since 1993.

More good starting points for TeX and LaTeX information:
* [http://www.tug.org/ TeX Users Group Home Page] The best online information about TeX.  It indexes useful information if you don't know what TeX is, if you want to learn TeX and/or LaTeX, or if you've been using them for years.  They also run one of the main sites of the [http://ctan.tug.org/ Comprehensive TeX Archive Network].
* [http://www.tug.org/texlive/ TeX Live Home Page].
* [http://www.latex-project.org/ LaTeX home page].
* [http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/ Donald E. Knuth's home page].
* [http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~hartke/computer/latex/survey/survey.html Free math fonts for TeX and LaTeX]

Some [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page WikiBooks] are also available for TeX:
* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX LaTeX]
* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/TeX TeX]
* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/TeX_for_the_Impatient TeX for the Impatient]

==Links==
Links to special topics on TeX include:

* Writing your thesis in TeX:  the '''ucthesis''' document class
** [[ucthesis readme file]] (documentation)
** a [/computing/help/TeX/samples/thesis/ sample thesis]
** [[Submitting your thesis electronically]]
* Writing letters in TeX:  [[ucbletter|the '''ucbletter''' document class]]
* [[pdftex|Using TeX to create ''pdf'' files]]
* [[Spell-checking TeX files]]
* [[Local TeX macro packages|Installing local macro packages (e.g.,
    '''ucbthesis''' or '''ucbletter''') on your machine at home]]
* [[Adding Fonts to TeX]] and [[Adding Macro Packages to TeX]] (on the math department network)
* [[Converting From LaTeX 2.09]] to LaTeX 2e

==Some Samples==
Some TeX samples are available:
{|border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
 |colspan=2|
 | [/computing/help/TeX/samples/thesis/ latex]
 | Writing a thesis in LaTeX (same as the above link)
 |-
 |colspan=2| [[tex sample metapost|tex and amstex]]
 | [[latex sample metapost|latex]]
 | A sample MetaPost document, with a label
 |-
 | [[tex sample rsfs|tex]]
 | [[amstex sample rsfs|amstex]]
 | [[latex sample rsfs|latex]]
 | Using Ralph Smith's Formal Script (rsfs) fonts for nicer script characters
 |-
 |
 | [[amstex sample cyrillic|amstex]]
 | [[latex sample cyrillic|latex]]
 | Using Cyrillic text
 |-
 |
 | [[amstex sample sha|amstex]]
 | [[latex sample sha|latex]]
 | Using Cyrillic symbols
 |-
 |colspan=2|
 | [[latex sample romanian|latex]]
 | Using Romanian characters
 |-
 |
 | [[amstex sample bold greek|amstex]]
 | [[latex sample bold greek|latex]]
 | Bold Greek letters
 |}