It is indeed a lucky author who is given the opportunity to completely rewrite a
book barely a year after its publication. Writing about software affords such opportunities
(especially if the original edition sold out), since the author is shooting
at a moving target.

LATEX andAMS-LATEX improved dramatically with the release of the new standard
LATEX (called LATEX2") in June of 1994 and the revision of AMS-LATEX (version

This book is for anyone who uses TeX. Novices will need at least one other reference, because this book does not describe the nuts and bolts of writing documents with TeX in any great detail.

* Introduction to LaTeX
o TeX and LaTeX
o A Typical LaTeX Input File
o Characters and Control Sequences
* Producing Simple Documents using LaTeX
o Producing a LaTeX Input File
o Producing Ordinary Text using LaTeX
o Blank Spaces and Carriage Returns in the Input File
o Quotation Marks and Dashes
o Section Headings in LaTeX
o Changing Fonts in Text Mode
o Accents and other Symbols used in Text
o Active Characters and Special Symbols in Text
* Producing Mathematical Formulae using LaTeX