Hypertext LaTeX Help files

If you find Hypertext Help with LaTeX to be useful, you are welcome to obtain the complete set of files and install them on your own machine. They may be installed for use either with a Web server, which will ease network traffic on my machine and probably give you faster access, or they may be installed as local files which may be "read" with an HTML viewer, such as Mosaic, Cello, Lynx, or (if you must) Netscape, without the necessity of a network connection.

The set of help files has only local (within the same directory) hypertext links. All links to "external" URL's, including much LaTeX information available on the Web, have been restricted to one file in this set besides the current file.

The files are available via anonymous ftp as a Unix compressed tar file. After downloading this file to filename.tar.Z on your local machine, issue the Unix commands:

   uncompress "filename.tar.Z"
   tar -xvf "filename.tar"

(Note: some Web software, such as Mosaic, will automatically uncompress the file when retrieving it, in which case save it as filename.tar and skip the first line above.) This will create a subdirectory named "html" in your current directory which contains the complete set of HTML files. The "Introduction" file is index.html and the Table of Contents page is ltx-2.html.

You may rename or move the entire html subdirectory if desired; all file references are local to this directory so links should continue to work.

If you cannot handle a compressed Unix tar file, please contact Sheldon Green at the address below to obtain the data sets in an alternate format.

Web site maintained by Sheldon Green, agxsg@giss.nasa.gov.
Revised 27 Sep 1995.