Assorted Software Manuals

HTML for Newbies
(my insult to your intelligence)

A Beginner's Guide to HTML
(from NCSA - ironically, a 75 KB, 24-page PDF file)

MathML 2.0 specification
(W3C recommendations - a 3.25 MB, 665-page PDF file)

Doob's Introduction to TeX
(Michael Doob's "gentle" guide to TeX: a 391 KB, 97-page PDF file)

Assorted LaTeX Manuals

IPE (for combining graphics with LaTeX - a 332 KB, 33-page PDF file)

PostScript Tips

LabView for Data Acquisition

gnuplot - ref. card, tutorial & manual

MathWorks'   MatLab   ($$$)

SciLab   (free alternative)

Octave   (another free alternative)

SuperMongo : 888 kB PDF manual or 83 kB PDF tutorial)

Extrema : 926 kB PDF manual or 376 kB PDF tutorial - see also Physica homepage - most commands are the same for Extrema.

µView - a Java spreadsheet for µSR

FORTRAN g77

Assorted Java Manuals

Version Control with Subversion 1.1
(a 1.53 MB, 299-page PDF file)

PHP   manual

XML with PHP : part 1 & part 2
(72 KB, 20-page and 32 KB, 18-page PDF files, respectively)

MySQL 3.22.30 or MySQL Reference (up to V4.1.1, 2003) - the latter is a 3 MB, 1063-page PDF file.

OpenOffice 1.0 XML Specification
(a 1.42 MB, 571-page PDF file)