1. The critical specifications for page layout can be found in the Page Layout Diagram
2. Information on setting the headers and footers can be found in fancyheadings.sty (\usepackage{fancyheadings})
3. Online reference to LaTeX
4. example1.tex, and resulting output
5. example2.tex, and resulting output

Windows

A free TeX installation, with install on demand capabilities. Provides tex, latex and pdflatex capabilities.

1. MikTex
2. Ghostview, ghostscript available from Univ. of Wisconsin This provides postscript viewers, as well as ps2pdf. This allows one to print to PDF from any windows application (simply print to file using a generic postscript printer, such as an Apple laserwriter, then convert using ps2pdf. Detailed instructions are available here)

Mac OS Check here for more information.

• LaTeX Documentation
• PostScript Font information
• Math Authoring Software from the AMS.
• Official LaTeX site

1. Document Styles
   \documentstyle[options]{style} - style may be one of
   1. article
   2. book
   3. letter
   4. report
   5. slides
   6. etc.
   options may be one of
   1. twocolumn
   2. 11pt
   3. 12pt
   4. etc.

2. Setting Dimensions:
   \oddsidemargin
   \evensidemargin
   \textwidth
   \textheight
   \topmargin
   \headheight
   \headsep
   \footskip
   

3. Table of Contents:
   \tableofcontents
   

4. Titles:
   \author{}
   \title{}
   \date{}
   

5. Sections Headings:
   \section
   \subsection
   \subsubsection
   

6. Including Files
   \include{filename} - includes text from filename at that position
   \input{file} - includes text from file.tex at that position
   \begin{verbatim} ... \end{verbatim}

7. Including Graphics
   \usepackage{epsfig}
   \epsfig{file=...,width=...,height=..}

8. Math Mode:
   $ math expression $ or
   \( math expression \) or
   \begin{math} math expression \end{math}

9. Display Math Mode:
   $$ math expression $$ or
   \[ math expression \[ or
   \begin{displaymath} math expression \end{displaymath}
   \displaymath

10. Paragraphs:
    \\ terminate a line
    \hfill - fill horizontally
    \vfill - fill vertically
    \newpage
    \newline
    

11. Emphasis
    \bf - bold
    \it - italic
    \rm - Roman
    

12. Copyright
    \copyright

13. Ellipsis
    \ldots
    \ddots
    \dotfill
    

14. Boxes
    \fbox{text}
    

15. Lists
    \begin{itemize} \item \end{itemize}
    \begin{enumerate} \item \end{enumerate}
    

16. Macros
    \newcommand{\cmd}[narg]{def}

17. Appendices:
    \appendix

18. References
    \ref{text}
    \label{text}
    \cite[subcit]{ref}

19. Bibliography
    \bibitem{ref} text...

1. Example of Cyrllic Fonts PDF result
2. Font Families PDF result