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====== An introduction to LATEX ======

==== Vassar College Department of Mathematics Announces a lecture/demonstration ====

==== John McCleary ====

Vassar College \\
Tuesday, September 17, 2013 \\
Rockefeller Hall 300 \\
7-8:30pm \\


One of the most useful programming languages is TEX, constructed by 
Donald Knuth, and developed by Leslie Lamport into LATEX, the standard
for mathematical typesetting over the last 25 years. If you want to 
be able to typeset your mathematical work, or even to typeset any of 
your assignments, LATEX can be very valuable. 

I will give a lecture/demonstration of elementary aspects of
the LATEX programming language. If you have installed a version of TEX on your laptop, bring it
along. On the MAC, install TEXshop. On machines running Microsoft operating systems, install MikTEX. Both of these versions
of TEX are freely available on the Web.