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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 |