The LaTeX Local Guide

Brian Edmonds <bedmonds@cs.ubc.ca>
Department of Computer Science
University of British Columbia

• Running a Sample File
  • Where to locate small2e.tex
  • How to run LaTeX
  • Stopping LaTeX When Things Go Wrong
  • Previewing and Printing DVI Files
  • Printing but still saving some trees
• Using Colour
• Using Graphics
• Text Editors for LaTeX
• Finding Special Keys on the Keyboard
• Writing Letters on Department Letterhead
• Where LaTeX Searches For Files
  • Personal LaTeX library
  • Supported packages
  • Unsupported packages
• Available Fonts
• Making a Bibliography
• Making an Index
• Troubleshooting
  • latex: command not found
  • latex209.fmt not found
  • File `article.cls' not found.
  • Compilation seems to take too long
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