Readings:
This week please read pg. 2–21, please remember you don’t have to read sections marked
with a double dangerous curve sign.

Key Concepts:
• How to use quotation marks.
• How to create accents.
• What a control sequence is.
• What \TeX produces (mostly just for fun).
• What the difference is between italic and slanted print.
• How, when, and why we use italic corrections.
• Why we need groups.

Exercises:
Exercise 1 (Exercises from the Reading)
• Chapter 2: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3(optional), 2.4
• Chapter 3: 3.1, 3.2, 3.4(optional)
• Chapter 4: 4.1, 4.2, 4.4
• Chapter 5: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4

Exercise 2 (Simple Sandbox)
We want you to explore the basic commands you have learned. Open story.tex in
TeXshop and make sure the pull down menu is set to Plain TeX. Try and type some lines in
italics, and slanted. Change the size. Create new lines. The only thing you probably do not
want to mess around with is \end as that is necessary for the program to function. To see what
the output looks like just push the typeset button at the top of your TeXshop window. This is
an example document from the next chapter, and we will explain it bit by bit next week, but
for now just try and get a feel for what different things do. Have fun.