A few files to get you started on LaTeX

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Notation

Notation is very important in our field. I have prepared a table of symbols I most frequently use. You can retrieve the LaTeX source Notation.tex, or the postscript file Notation.ps obtained from it.

Typesetting your homeworks

You are required to typeset your work using LaTeX (latex on our system), the standard high-quality typesetting program in our field. To include figures in your homework, you can draw them using TGIF or any other graphical tool available to you, and save them as EPS files. Here is an example of how to include a file Figure.eps, generated from the TGIF file Figure.obj, into a file Figure.tex.

Here is an example of how to use citations in LaTex. Copy file BibtexExample.tex and BibtexExample.bib to a directory of yours, then run the commands
latex BibtexExample
bibtex BibtexExample
latex BibtexExample
latex BibtexExample
(in that order).