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Each session costs $60. Persons attending three or more sessions will
receive a 10% discount on session tuition. Each session is limited to
20 persons and is subject to minimum booking before being offered. 
Overbooked sessions may be reoffered during or after the course
schedule as given below. If you are unable to attend a course as
scheduled but are interested, please let us know and we will inform
you of future offerings. The location of the classes will be
announced. They are tentatively planned to be held in Pasadena.

23 June       Session  1.  LaTeX 2e Basics
30 June       Session  2.  Skills for using LaTeX more efficiently
 7 July       Session  3.  Math with LaTeX
14 July       Session  4.  Lining things up 
21 July       Session  5.  More sophisticated documents
26 July       Session  6a. Graphics and LaTeX
28 July       Session  6b  Graphics and LaTeX (repeat)
11 August     Session  7.  Creating document classes for LaTeX I
18 August     Session  8.  Creating document classes for LaTeX II
25 August     Session  9.  Creating document classes for LaTeX III
 1 September  Session 10.  Creating document classes for LaTeX IV

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR.

  Don Hosek has been teaching LaTeX since 1988. He is the author of
  numerous LaTeX style files and packages and is finishing up a book
  on LaTeX which will be used as the basis for class notes. He has
  been working with TeX and LaTeX full time since 1991. He is the
  editor-publisher of Serif: The Magazine of Type and Typography.

SESSION 1: LaTeX 2e Basics

  The basics of LaTeX (What is LaTeX? Getting inside LaTeX; When LaTeX
  doesn't work right; Special spacing considerations; printing a title;
  Printing section headers; Extracts; Basic math)

  Putting together a document-I (Different document classes; Using packages;
  The abstract; The table of contents; Appendices; Typesetting letters with 
  LaTeX; Fragile commands)

  Putting together a document-II (Footnotes; accents and foreign characters;
  A few miscellaneous LaTeX commands; Cross-referencing; Selecting 
  typefaces; Making lists)

  Differences between LaTeX 2.09 and LaTeX 2e

SESSION 2: Skills for using LaTeX more efficiently [1]

  Defining new commands and environments (Enunciations (theorems); Simple
  commands; Simple environments; Commands with arguments; Environments with
  arguments; Redefining commands and environments; Defining commands and
  environments with optional arguments)

  Document style adjustments (Changing page dimensions; Depth of section
  numbering and table of contents entries; Controlling the way LaTeX prints
  numbers; Page headers and footers; Figure and table placement controls;
  Adjusting the tabular and array environments)

  Document output adjustments (Adjusting line breaks; Hyphenation; Adjusting
  page breaks; Adjusting math spacing; Inserting spacing in other contexts;
  Adjusting the formatting style of math mode; Controlling the placement
  of figures and tables)

  Using PostScript fonts with LaTeX

SESSION 3: Math with LaTeX [1, 2 recommended]

  Fundamentals of math typing (Superscripts and subscripts; Greek and other
  symbols, Log-like functions, Math accents, Fractions, Roots)

  Advanced mathematics typing (Producing large parentheses and the like,
  The array environment; Ellipses; Unmatched delimiters; Aligned formulas;
  Multiple line formulas; Text inside a formula; Font selection in math
  mode; Boldface symbols in math mode)

  Using AmS-LaTeX

SESSION 4: Lining things up [1, 2 recommended]

  The tabular environment (Preparing to use the tabular environment;
  The basic tabular column specifications; Fonts in the tabular 
  environment; Lines in the tabular environment; Overriding formatting;
  Paragraph columns)

  The tabbing environment (tabbing basics; "Template" lines; Text flush
  right in a column; Indenting in a tabbing; Saving and restoring tab
  settings)

  Advanced uses of tabbing and tabular (Decimanl alignments and 
  replacing inter-column spacing; Setting tabulars to a given width;
  Centering a tabbing command; Footnotes in a tabular or tabbing;
  Packages which extend tabular)

SESSION 5: More sophisticated documents [1, 2 recommended]

  More complicated documents (Advanced titling; Verbatim text; The
  table and figure environments; Splitting a document into several
  files)

  The bibliography (The standard LaTeX format for a bibliography;
  Citing entries in the bibliography; Changing the label of a
  bibliography entry; Using BibTeX for producing a bibliography;
  Advanced BibTeX techniques; The basic bibliography styles; Additional
  bibliography styles)

  The index and makeindex (Index fundamentals; Subentries; Multiple
  page index entries; Cross-referencing; Changing sort keys; Special
  printing of page numbers in the index)

  Making transparencies

SESSION 6: Graphics and LaTeX [1, 2 recommended]

  The LaTeX picture environment
 
  Extensions to the LaTeX picture environment

  Including graphics from other sources

SESSIONS 7-10: Creating document classes for LaTeX [1-6 strongly recommended]

  A comprehensive overview of techniques for manipulating all aspects
  of LaTeX 




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Don Hosek                                       
Quixote Digital Typography                      
Publishers of _Serif: The Magazine of Type and Typography_
909-621-1291                        
FAX: 909-625-1342                   
dhosek@quixote.com