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\title{Course Notes\\
for \TeX\ for Beginners\\
August 20--24, 1984}

\author{Arthur M. Keller}

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    Copyright \copyright 1984 by Arthur Keller}

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This is an introductory course in \TeX.  
It will certainly not teach you everything about \TeX---that
can take years of experience---but it will teach you enough to
get started, and to be able to make sense out of the more advanced
material in {\sl The \TeX book}.  In other words, the course is
designed as an overview of \TeX.

This is the first version of these notes to go along with the first
version of this course, \TeX\ for Beginners.
I expect that the course will be offered again, and that these
notes will be improved for future versions.

The course consists of 20 one-hour lectures given over five days,
whew!
Following 14 of these are short assignments to be done during the lab.
There are 4 hours of lecture and 4 hours of lab each day.

These are rather sparse notes.
The primary reference for the course will be {\sl The \TeX book}, by
Donald E. Knuth.
In addition, these notes do not cover all that has been covered in
class.
This will hopefully be corrected in a later version.

There are, of course, numerous people who I would like to thank for
help in producing these notes.
First and foremost, I would like to thank Don Knuth for building the
system and for patiently answering my many questions, and implementing
the better of my suggestions.
Eric Berg was a great help in the preparation of the course and these notes.
The TAs are John Mark Agosta, Eric Berg, Patrick Ion, and Marcy Swenson.
In addition, there are many others who will be mentioned if I get around
to mentioning them.
These include
Barbara Beeton,
Sharon Bergman,
Dave Fuchs,
Ray Goucher,
Ariadne Johnson,
Phyllis Winkler.

Chapter 2 (TOPS-20 and BEMACS Brief Intro) borrows heavily from the {\sl
LOTS Overview Manual}, copyrighted by the Board of Trustees of Leland
Stanford, Jr. University, and is used with permission.

Feel free to ask questions at any time during the lectures.  (However, the 
instructor may choose to defer answering until a later point in the course.)

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Palo Alto\\
August 1984
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\section*{About the Instructor}

The instructor is an $n↑{\rm th}$ year graduate student in Computer
Science at Stanford.
He has been using \TeX\ since shortly after it became available in the
original version (currently referred to as \TeX 78, to distinguish it from
the newer version of \TeX\ now in use).
He has used \TeX\ to produce technical papers and lecture notes, and also
to produce his textbook {\sl A First Course in Computer Programming Using
Pascal} and its {\sl Instructor's Manual}.

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