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		  TeX Courses to be Held at Rutgers


 Rutgers University, in Piscataway, New Jersey, will be hosting a
series of courses on TeX, run by the TeX Users Group, during late
July and August.  The courses and dates are described below.  For
information about course programs, further course descriptions, fees,
and registration, contact:

			 The TeX Users Group
			    P.O. Box 9506
			 Providence, RI 02940
			       or call
			401-272-9500, ext. 232

Beginning TeX (5 days) (Non-Technical Users)
        #104    July 29 - August 2
        #105    August 26 - 30

 This course will provide a comprehensive introduction for those with
limited, or no, exposure to TeX and will be composed of about equal
parts lecture and "hands-on" sessions.  The student will be
introduced to fundamental TeX concepts (e.g., boxes and glue,
dimensions, modes, penalties) and to the process of TeXing a file.
By the end of the week, students will have had experience in setting
standard text in a variety of fonts and magnifications; coding
in-line and displayed mathematical expressions; aligning simple
tables; defining simple macros; and producing captions, footnotes,
headers, and other insertions.

Intermediate TeX (3 days)
        #203    August 19 - 21

 Intermediate TeX will provide three days of lectures and laboratory
sessions building upon the foundation laid at the beginning level.
Topics to be covered include rules; tabular structures, tabs, and
alignment; complicated mathematical expressions; macros; decisions,
allocation, delimited parameters, and other involved definitions;
error recovery; tracing and debugging; fonts and output devices;
preview, proof copy, and typeset copy; file organization; input
specs; and macro package design.

Macro Writing (2 days)
        #302    August 22 - 23

 This course will give an intensive, two-day study of macro writing
and designing macro packages.  Topics to be covered are a review of
basic concepts; delimited and undelimited parameters; global vs.
local definitions; conditional commands; expansions of macros and
tokens, and when expansion takes place; and advanced error handling,
debugging, and recovery.  Prequisites are Beginning and Intermediate
TeX or equivalent knowledge.
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-Mel Pleasant
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