Getting Started

Before you embark upon your thesis production, we suggest that you obtain a copy of the ``Thesis Manual'' and a copy of Leslie Lamport's L^ATEX User's Guide and Reference Manual [#!ll!#] which are available in the MSC Bookstore. The Thesis Manual is also available on-line from the Office of Graduate Studies home page http://www.tamu.edu/researchandgradstudies/GraduateStudies/. If you intend to write equations in TEX you may wish to purchase a copy of Donald Knuth's The TEX book [#!dk!#], which is also available in the MSC Bookstore. A few more introductory L^ATEX books are listed for your reference:

1.

Michael Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, and Alexander Samarin, ``The L^ATEX Companion'', Addison Wesley, 1994.

2.

Helmut Kopta and Patrick Daly, ``A Guide to L^ATEX '', Addison Wesley, 1993.

3.

Adria Johnstone, ``L^ATEX Concisely'', Prentice Hall, 1993.

4.

Antoni Diller, ``L^ATEX Line By Line'', Wiley, 1992.

5.

Jane Hahn, ``L^ATEX For Everyone'', Personal TEX Inc., 1991.

6.

David J. Buerger, ``L^ATEX for Engineers and Scientists'', McGraw-Hill, 1990.

7.

Norman Walsh, ``Making TEX Work'', O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1994.

You might also find it useful to have a copy of the Electrical Engineering L^ATEX Examples book, which is available in the WERC Copy Center. We are assuming that you have at least a basic understanding of L^ATEX and an editor. You will need to consult the L^ATEX User's Guide and possibly The TEXbook, the latter when producing complex mathematical equations. We encourage you to purchase The L^ATEX Companion by Goossens et al. to take full advantage of L^ATEX2_e.