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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-man-latex.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-man-latex.html index 25dc921425f..2cf76a90730 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-man-latex.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-man-latex.html @@ -2,60 +2,60 @@ <title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label man-latex</title> </head><body> <h3>Online introductions: LaTeX</h3> -<p/>A pleasing little document, “Getting something out of LaTeX” is -designed to give a feel of LaTeX to someone who’s never used it at -all. It’s not a tutorial, merely helps the user to decide whether to -go on to a tutorial, and to ‘real’ use of LaTeX. -<p/>Tobias Oetiker’s ‘(Not so) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e’, is +<p/>A pleasing little document, “Getting something out of LaTeX” is +designed to give a feel of LaTeX to someone who’s never used it at +all. It’s not a tutorial, merely helps the user to decide whether to +go on to a tutorial, and to ‘real’ use of LaTeX. +<p/>Tobias Oetiker’s ‘(Not so) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e’, is regularly updated, as people suggest better ways of explaining things, etc. The introduction is available on CTAN, together with translations into a rather large set of languages. -<p/>Peter Flynn’s “Beginner’s LaTeX” (which started life as course +<p/>Peter Flynn’s “Beginner’s LaTeX” (which started life as course material) is a pleasing read. A complete copy may be found on CTAN, but it may also be browsed over the web (<a href="http://mirrors.ctan.org/info/beginlatex/html/">http://mirrors.ctan.org/info/beginlatex/html/</a>). -<p/>Harvey Greenberg’s ‘Simplified Introduction to LaTeX’ was written +<p/>Harvey Greenberg’s ‘Simplified Introduction to LaTeX’ was written for a lecture course, and is also available on CTAN (in PostScript only, unfortunately). -<p/>The fourth edition of George Grätzer’s book “Math into LaTeX” -contains a “short course” in LaTeX itself, and that course has +<p/>The fourth edition of George Grätzer’s book “Math into LaTeX” +contains a “short course” in LaTeX itself, and that course has been made publicly available on CTAN. -<p/>Philip Hirschhorn’s “Getting up and running with AMSLaTeX” has a +<p/>Philip Hirschhorn’s “Getting up and running with AMSLaTeX” has a brief introduction to LaTeX itself, followed by a substantial introduction to the use of the AMS classes and the <i>amsmath</i> package and other things that are potentially of interest to those writing documents containing mathematics. -<p/>Edith Hodgen’s +<p/>Edith Hodgen’s <a href="http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~david/latex/notes.pdf">LaTeX, a Braindump</a> -starts you from the ground up — giving a basic tutorial in the use -of <i>Linux</i> to get you going (rather a large file…). -Its parent site, David Friggens’ +starts you from the ground up — giving a basic tutorial in the use +of <i>Linux</i> to get you going (rather a large file…). +Its parent site, David Friggens’ <a href="http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~david/latex/">documentation page</a> is a useful collection of links in itself. <p/> -<a href="http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex/">Andy Roberts’ introductory material</a> +<a href="http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex/">Andy Roberts’ introductory material</a> is a pleasing short introduction to the use of (La)TeX; some of the slides for <em>actual</em> tutorials are to be found on the page, as well. -<p/>Chris Harrison’s +<p/>Chris Harrison’s <a href="http://www.chrisharrison.co.uk/xophbook/mybooks/tex/index.html">TeX book</a> presents basic LaTeX with useful hints for extensions -<p/>Nicola Talbot’s +<p/>Nicola Talbot’s <a href="http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/novices/">LaTeX for complete novices</a> does what it claims: the author teaches LaTeX at the University of -East Anglia. That is one of several of Nicola’s +East Anglia. That is one of several of Nicola’s <a href="http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/">introductory tutorials</a>, which include exercises (with solutions). Other tutorials include those for writing theses/dissertations with LaTeX, and for using LaTeX in administrative work. (The page seems to be an adjunct to -her LaTeX courses — fortunate people, the people of UEA!). +her LaTeX courses — fortunate people, the people of UEA!). <p/>An interesting (and practical) tutorial about what <em>not</em> to do is -<i>l2tabu</i>, or “A list of sins of LaTeX2e users” by Mark -Trettin, translated into English by Jürgen Fenn. The +<i>l2tabu</i>, or “A list of sins of LaTeX2e users” by Mark +Trettin, translated into English by Jürgen Fenn. The tutorial is available from CTAN as a PDF file (though the source is also available). <dl> -<dt><tt><i>Beginner’s LaTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/beginlatex/beginlatex-3.6.pdf">info/beginlatex/beginlatex-3.6.pdf</a> +<dt><tt><i>Beginner’s LaTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/beginlatex/beginlatex-3.6.pdf">info/beginlatex/beginlatex-3.6.pdf</a> <dt><tt><i>First LaTeX document</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/first-latex-doc.zip">info/first-latex-doc</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/first-latex-doc/">browse the directory</a>) <dt><tt><i>Getting up and running with AMSLaTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/amslatex/primer.zip">info/amslatex/primer</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/amslatex/primer/">browse the directory</a>) |