TeX Packages

Graphics Previews

Putting

  \usepackage[active,graphics,tightpage]{preview}

last in the preamble will produce a pdf containing only the graphics.

Color

There are at least two packages

 \usepackage{color}     % documentation in color.pdf

  \usepackage{xcolor}   % documentation in grfguide.pdf

By the command line type:

 texdoc grfguide

Movies

Easy Movie (not compatible with Acrobat 7.X+)
Movie15

AMS Math Package

Commutative Diagrams: see page 21 of the AMS Math Documentation.

Example:

   \documentclass[11pt]{article}
   \usepackage{amsmath, amssymb, amscd}
   \begin{document}

    $$
    \begin{CD}
    S^{{\mathcal{W}}_{\Lambda}}\otimes T @>j>>   T
    @VVV                                         @VV{\operatorname{End} P}V
    (S\otimes T)/I            @=       (Z\otimes T)/J
    \end{CD}
    $$

  \end{document}