http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~hildebr/tex/course/intro2.html http://www.math.harvard.edu/texman/ http://www.math.duke.edu/computing/tex/templates.html Warning: TeX, LaTeX etc is a "living" language which tends to change over the years. When something you find on the web doesn't work, it could be that the source was written too long ago and not updated. Celebrate progress, not curse the negligent author.