November 7, 1995

The file mil.pdf provides an introduction to LaTeX:

Math into LaTeX 
Short Course

based on the book

Math into LaTeX
An Introduction to LaTeX and AMS-LaTeX

by George Gratzer, published by Birkhauser Boston, 
ISBN 0-8176-3805-9.

The following parts are reproduced from the book:

 1. Short contents
 2. Contents
 3. List of tables
 4. List of figures
 5. Preface
 6. Introduction
 7. Part I, A short course
 8. Appendix A, Math symbol tables
 9. Appendix B, Text symbol tables
10. Afterword

In addition, there is an Index but it is not the full index for
the whole book but the index for the parts reproduced here.

Please note that this material is copyrighted by Birkhauser
Boston; the copyright information and isbn number is on page 4 of
mil.pdf.

mil.pdf is a portable document format (pdf) file.  To view the pdf
file (it cannot be printed), you need the Acrobat Reader; it is
available (free of charge) from Adobe Inc. for the following
platforms:

DOS
Windows 3.1, Windows NT, Windows 95
Macintosh
Silicon Graphics Irix
Sun Sparc and HP

If you do not have the reader, you can download it from the ftp site:

ftp.adobe.com 

or from the WWW site:

www.adobe.com

Ask an Adobe dealer for a free copy.

To see the thumbnail sketches of the pages, choose the 

Thumbnails and Page

option in the View menu.

Some pages on the Macintosh do not read correctly on the computer
monitor; it seems then preferable to read the printed version of
mil.pdf.  If the System file contains only Adobe licensed fonts, all
the significant problems go away.

The subdirectory 

templates

contains the templates and sample documents for Part I of the book.

This directory contains two more files: 

errors.txt is a listing of the errors in the book;

gratzer    is a file added to the distribution, so that people
           looking for it with

           quote site index gratzer

           would find it.
 
Please direct your comments concerning the Math into LaTeX, Short
Course to

George_Gratzer@umanitoba.ca