summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-docs.tex
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-docs.tex')
-rw-r--r--Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-docs.tex95
1 files changed, 50 insertions, 45 deletions
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-docs.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-docs.tex
index 95e7330c269..33a819732c5 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-docs.tex
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-docs.tex
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-% $Id: faq-docs.tex,v 1.24 2011/07/19 18:58:57 rf10 Exp $
+% $Id: faq-docs.tex,v 1.29 2011/10/25 18:22:56 rf10 Exp rf10 $
\section{Documentation and Help}
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ While Knuth's book is the definitive reference for both \TeX{} and
\Qref[question]{online books}{Q-ol-books})
\item[\TeX{} in Practice]by Stephan von Bechtolsheim (Springer
Verlag, 1993, 4 volumes, \ISBN{3-540-97296-X} for the set, or
-% nos in brackets are for German distribution (Springer Verlag, Berlin)
+% nos in comments are for German distribution (Springer Verlag, Berlin)
Vol.~1: \ISBN{0-387-97595-0}, % (3-540-97595-0)
Vol.~2: \ISBN{0-387-97596-9}, % (3-540-97596-9)
Vol.~3: \ISBN{0-387-97597-7}, and % (3-540-97597-7)
@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ A collection of Knuth's publications about typography is also available:
(second edition, Addison Wesley, 1994, \ISBN{0-201-52983-1})
\item[Guide to \LaTeX{}]Helmut Kopka and Patrick W.~Daly (fourth
edition, Addison-Wesley, 2004, \ISBN{0-321-17385-6})
+\item[\latex{} Beginner's Guide]by Stefan Kottwitz (Packt Publishing,
+ 2011, \ISBN*{1847199860}{978-1847199867})
\item[The \LaTeX{} Companion]by Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
Johannes Braams, David Carlisle and Chris Rowley (second edition,
Addison-Wesley, 2004, \ISBN*{0-201-36299-6}{978-0-201-36299-2})
@@ -123,9 +125,10 @@ A collection of Knuth's publications about typography is also available:
multilingual aspects, and use of \Qref*{Omega}{Q-omegaleph}, by
Apostolos Syropoulos, Antonis Tsolomitis and Nick Sofroniou
(Springer, 2003, \ISBN{0-387-95217-9}).
-
- A list of errata for the first printing is available from:
- \URL{http://www.springer-ny.com/catalog/np/jan99np/0-387-98708-8.html}
+% A list of errata for the first printing of Digital Typography Using
+% \LaTeX{} is available from:
+% \URL{http://www.springer-ny.com/catalog/np/jan99np/0-387-98708-8.html}
+% (not any longer)
\item[First Steps in \LaTeX{}]by George Gr\"atzer (Birkh\"auser, 1999,
\ISBN{0-8176-4132-7})
\item[\LaTeX{}: Line by Line:]%
@@ -135,6 +138,14 @@ A collection of Knuth's publications about typography is also available:
\item[\LaTeX{} for Linux:]\emph{A Vade Mecum}
by Bernice Sacks Lipkin (Springer-Verlag, 1999,
\ISBN{0-387-98708-8}, second printing)
+\item[Typesetting Mathematics with \latex{}]by Herbert Vo\ss {} (UIT
+ Cambridge, 2010, \ISBN{978-1-906-86017-2})
+% checked 2011-09-09 http://www.uit.co.uk/BK-TMWL/HomePage
+\item[Typesetting Tables with \latex{}]by Herbert Vo\ss {}, (UIT
+ Cambridge, 2011, \ISBN{978-1-906-86025-7})
+% checked 2011-09-09 http://www.uit.co.uk/BK-TTWL/HomePage
+\item[PSTricks: Graphics and PostScript for \tex{} and \latex{}]by
+ Herbert Vo\ss {}, (UIT Cambridge, 2011, \ISBN{978-1-906-86013-4})
\end{booklist}
A sample of George Gr\"atzer's ``Math into \LaTeX{}'', in Adobe
Acrobat format, and example files
@@ -149,7 +160,7 @@ Gr\"atzer's ``First Steps in \LaTeX{}'', are all available on
%\item[\nothtml{\rmfamily}Examples for \nothtml{\upshape}\TeX{} in Practice]\CTANref{tip}
\item[\nothtml{\rmfamily}Sample of \nothtml{\upshape}Math into \LaTeX{}]\CTANref{mil}
\end{ctanrefs}
-\LastEdit*{2011-07-06}
+\LastEdit*{2011-09-09}
\Question[Q-other-books]{Books on other \tex{}-related matters}
@@ -596,11 +607,7 @@ Next comes the (rather new) field of % ! line break
A rather short list gives us a % ! line break
\Qref*{Typography style tutorial}{Q-typo-style}.
-
-Finally, we have a set of links to
-\Qref*{Directories of \AllTeX{} information}{Q-doc-dirs}, and details
-of some ``\Qref*{books}{Q-ol-books}'' that were once published
-conventionally, but are now available on-line.
+\LastEdit{2011-09-26}
\Question[Q-man-tex]{Online introductions: \plaintex{}}
@@ -693,7 +700,8 @@ the source is also available).
source also available: \CTANref{l2tabuen.src}
\end{ctanrefs}
-\Question[Q-tutbitslatex]{Specialised \AllTeX{} tutorials}
+\Question[Q-tutbitslatex]{\AllTeX{} tutorials}
+\AliasQuestion{Q-doc-dirs}
The \acro{AMS} publishes a ``Short Math Guide for \LaTeX{}'', which is
available (in several formats) via
@@ -701,38 +709,41 @@ available (in several formats) via
Documentation'' about half-way down the page.
Herbert Vo\ss {} has written an extensive guide to mathematics in
-\LaTeX{} (a German version of which is published as a book). The
-guide is part of his ``\Qref*{tips and tricks}{Q-doc-dirs}'' and
-a copy is maintained on \acro{CTAN}.
-%\URL{http://www.perce.de/LaTeX/math/Mathmode-TeX.pdf}
+\LaTeX{}, and a development of it has been % ! line break
+\Qref*{published as a book}{Q-latex-books}.
Two documents written more than ten years apart about font usage in
-\TeX{} are worth reading: % ! line breaks, next 3 lines
+\TeX{} are worth reading: % ! line break
\href{http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb14-2/tb39rahtz-nfss.pdf}{Essential NFSS}
-by Sebastian Rahtz, and
+by Sebastian Rahtz, and % ! line break
\href{http://tug.org/pracjourn/2006-1/schmidt/schmidt.pdf}{Font selection in LaTeX},
cast in the form of an \acro{FAQ}, by Walter Schmidt. A general
compendium of font information (including the two above) may be found
on the \href{http://www.tug.org/fonts/}{TUG web site}.
+T\acro{UG} India is developing a series of online \LaTeX{} tutorials
+which can be strongly recommended: select single chapters at a time
+from \URL{http://www.tug.org/tutorials/tugindia}\nobreakspace--- there
+are 17~chapters in the series, two of which are mostly introductory.
+
Peter Smith's
\begin{narrowversion}
``\LaTeX{} for Logicians''
- (\URL{http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/teaching_staff/Smith/LaTeX/})
+ (\URL{http://www.logicmatters.net/latex-for-logicians/})
\end{narrowversion}
\begin{wideversion}
% ! line break
- ``\href{http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/teaching_staff/Smith/LaTeX/}{\LaTeX{} for Logicians}''
+ ``\href{http://www.logicmatters.net/latex-for-logicians/}{\LaTeX{} for Logicians}''
\end{wideversion}
-covers a rather smaller subject area, but is similarly comprehensive
+page covers a rather smaller subject area, but is similarly comprehensive
(mostly by links to documents on relevant topics, rather than as a
monolithic document).
-Keith Reckdahl's ``Using Imported Graphics in \LaTeXe{}'' is an
+Keith Reckdahl's ``Using Imported Graphics in \LaTeXe{}''
+(\Package{epslatex}) is an
excellent introduction to graphics use. It's available on
-\acro{CTAN}, but the sources aren't available (though they were
-promised some time back, they've not appeared, so the package is not
-available in \texlive{} or \miktex{}).
+\acro{CTAN}, but not in the \texlive{} or miktex{} distributions, for
+lack of sources.
Kjell Magne Fauske offers a set of examples of the use of the drawing
packages % ! line break
@@ -824,14 +835,16 @@ well as the primitive commands.
An interesting \LaTeX{} ``cheat sheet'' is available from \acro{CTAN}:
it's a list of (more or less) everything you `ought to' remember, for
-basic \LaTeX{} use. (It's laid out very compactly for printing on N.\
-American `letter'; printed on \acro{ISO} \acro{A}4, using Adobe
-Acrobat's ``shrink to fit'', it strains aged eyes\dots{})
+basic \LaTeX{} use. % line break
+(It's laid out very compactly for printing on N.\ American `letter';
+printed on \acro{ISO} \acro{A}4, using Adobe Acrobat's ``shrink to
+fit'', it strains aged eyes\dots{})
For command organised references to \LaTeX{}, Karl Berry (et
al)'s % !line break
\href{http://home.gna.org/latexrefman}{LaTeX reference manual} is (to
-an extent) work in progress, but is generally reliable.
+an extent) work in progress, but is generally reliable (source is
+available on the.archive as well).
The reference provided by the Emerson Center of Emory
University), % ! line break
@@ -852,12 +865,14 @@ for chaos, there is evidence that a strong user community can keep a
\acro{WIKI} under control.
Following the encouraging performance of the % ! line break
-\href{http://contextgarden.net/}{\CONTeXT{} \acro{WIKI}}, valiant efforts
-have been made generating ``\acro{WIKI} books'' for \AllTeX{} users. Thus we
-have \href{http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/TeX}{(Plain) \TeX{} \acro{WIKI}} and
-\href{http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX}{\LaTeX{} \acro{WIKI}} are well
-established. Neither would seem yet to be of publication quality, but
-they both seem useful reference sources.
+\href{http://contextgarden.net/}{\CONTeXT{} \acro{WIKI}}, valiant
+efforts have been made generating ``\acro{WIKI} books'' for \AllTeX{}
+users. Thus we have % ! line break
+\href{http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/TeX}{(Plain) \TeX{} \acro{WIKI}} and
+\href{http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX}{\LaTeX{} \acro{WIKI}}~---
+both well established. Neither would seem exactly of ``publication
+quality'' (though that isn't really the aim), but they are both useful
+reference sources.
\Question[Q-typo-style]{Typography tutorials}
@@ -884,16 +899,6 @@ of producing readable documents.
\item[memdesign]\CTANref{memdesign}
\end{ctanrefs}
-\Question[Q-doc-dirs]{Directories of \AllTeX{} information}
-
-T\acro{UG} India is developing a series of online \LaTeX{} tutorials
-which can be strongly recommended: select single chapters at a time
-from \URL{http://www.tug.org/tutorials/tugindia}\nobreakspace--- the
-set comprises two parts, ``Text'' and ``Graphics'', so far.
-
-Once, there were other links like that, but all the others have faded
-away, leaving the \acro{TUG} India set in splendid isolation.
-
\Question[Q-ol-books]{Freely available \AllTeX{} books}
People have long argued for \AllTeX{} books to be made available on