UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   -   DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

Physics 409

ASSORTED 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   ($$$)

Octave   (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

The Definitive Guide to Plone
- a 3.38 MB, 425-page PDF file

The Zope Book (for Zope 2.6)
- a 6.78 MB, 495-page PDF file


Jess H. Brewer
Last modified: Wed Oct 11 09:11:09 PDT 2006