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Resource Materials for Mathematical Communication and Technology

Emacs

HTML

LaTeX

Maple

Pine

UNIX

X-Windows

Emacs Resources

On paper

GNU Emacs Manual: by Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation, Boston, MA, 199x (continually updated as new versions of Emacs are issued). This is the definitive reference on Emacs.
Learning GNU Emacs: by Debra Cameron and Bill Rosenblatt, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 1991. As the title says, this is a good book for learning Emacs.

On line

Local on campus

Emacs tutorial: From the Emacs Help menu, select Emacs Tutorial.
GNU Emacs Manual: The entire Emacs manual can be consulted from inside Emacs. From the Help menu, select Info. You can also use a Web browser to read an html hypertext version of the GNU Emacs manual.
Newsgroups: Two of the main Emacs newsgroups are gnu.emacs.help and gnu.emacs.announce.

A book about HTML is a bit of an oxymoron. Since the World-Wide Web is changing so rapidly, any book about it is out of date on the day of publication. If you really want a book, I suggest you go to any store that carries computer books and browse the shelf--but don't buy anything more than a year old. For the record, here are two titles.

HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide: by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 1996.
The HTML Sourcebook, second edition: by Ian S. Graham, Wiley, 1996.

On line

Off campus

HyperText Markup Language: Here you will find definitive information about HTML from the World Wide Web Consortium.

LaTeX Resources

On paper

The not so short introduction to LaTeX2e: by Tobias Oetiker, Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna, and Elisabeth Schlegl. The latest version is available at https://mirrors.ctan.org/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf, and there is a local PostScript copy of the version of 25 January 1996. This is a 69 page beginner's manual.
LaTeX: A Document Preparation System, second edition: by Leslie Lamport (creator of LaTeX), Addison-Wesley, 1994. This is the basic manual.
More Math into LaTeX: by George Grätzer
The LaTeX Companion: by Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, and Alexander Samarin, Addison-Wesley, 1994. This is essential reading if you want to go beyond the basics and do customization, use add-on packages, use non-standard fonts, and so forth. If you think there ought to be an easy way to do something in LaTeX, and you can't find it in Lamport's manual, look here next.
The TeXbook: by Donald E. Knuth (grand wizard and creator of TeX), Addison-Wesley, 1984 (first edition), 1993 (23rd printing---the latest I know about). This is the holy book of the TeX world, the definitive work about TeX (the program that underlies LaTeX). Look here if you want to write style files or packages, or if you want to understand what some arcane error message really means.

On line

Comprehensive TeX Archive Network: CTAN is a source for LaTeX packages.
Newsgroups: There is no newsgroup specifically devoted to LaTeX; the main TeX newsgroup is comp.text.tex.

Software

An inexpensive copy of a commercial implementation of TeX and LaTeX for your Windows PC may be available during the fall of 1996 through the Texas A&M Software Evaluation Loan and Licensing program. Details were under discussion in August of 1996.

Maple Resources

On paper

CalcLabs with Maple V: by Albert Boggess et al. (a whole slew of Texas A&M authors), Brooks/Cole, 1995. This is the manual used for the first two semesters of calculus at Texas A&M University.
Maple V Learning Guide: by K. M. Heal, M. L. Hansen, and K. M. Rickard, Springer, 1996. Updated for Maple V Release 4.
Maple V Programming Guide: by M. B. Monagan, K. O. Geddes, K. M. Heal, G. Labahn, and S. Vorkoetter, Springer, 1996. Updated for Maple V Release 4.
Maple V quick reference: by Nancy Blachman, Brooks/Cole, 1994.
First leaves: a tutorial introduction to Maple V: by Bruce W. Char, Springer-Verlag, 1992.
Maple V language reference manual: by Bruce W. Char, Springer-Verlag, 1993.
Maple V library reference manual: by Bruce W. Char, Springer-Verlag, 1992.

On line

QuikTours, etc.: On the local calclab machines, you can find QuikTours and other information for many courses in the /courses directory.
Maple in Texas A&M Mathematics Courses: Local documentation from Art Belmonte.
Maple Home Page: From Maplesoft.
Newsgroups: There is no newsgroup specifically devoted to Maple, but you can find discussion of Maple in sci.math.symbolic and in sci.math.num-analysis.

Software

Texas A&M graduate students in the Department of Mathematics may be able to get Maple V Release 4 for a home PC or Mac for $50 through the campus site license program. Inquire in the main office in Blocker. Local bookstores carry the Student Edition, but the student edition of Release 4 will not be available until the spring 1997 semester.