TeX Cookbook

This document is meant to help new users of TeX, the typesetting system designed by Donald Knuth. It presents the material in a "cookbook" format. Each table consists of two columns. The first column shows you what you want to appear on the final typeset page. The second column shows you what you have to type in TeX to produce that. Sometimes there is a third column with additional notes.

The document is divided into the following sections:

Dashes
Standard ligatures
Accents
Special characters
Punctuation
Special symbols
Fonts
Breakable horizontal spaces
Unbreakable horizontal spaces
Math accents
Greek letters
Math spaces
Ordinary math symbols
Subscripts and superscripts
Binary operations
Order relations
Negated relations
Equivalence relations
Other binary relations
Stacking
Roots and radicals
Grouping
Dots
Arrows
Delimiters
Large delimiters
Large operators
Limits on large operators
Functions

The Cookbook refers to a few TeX macros that are not part of plain TeX.

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