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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-man-latex.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-man-latex.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..82eb49440c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-man-latex.html @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label man-latex</title> +</head><body> +<h3>Online introductions: LaTeX</h3> +<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 also started 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://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/beginlatex/html/">http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/beginlatex/html/</a>). +<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>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’ +<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> +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 +<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 +<a href="http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/novices/novices.html">LaTeX for complete novices</a> +does what it claims: the author teaches LaTeX at the University of +East Anglia. +<p>Nicola Talbot also provides a set of +<a href="http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/">introductory tutorials</a>, +which include exercises (with solutions). The page was developed as +an extension to the LaTeX course Nicola teaches at the University +of East Anglia. +<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 +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="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/beginlatex/beginlatex-3.6.pdf">info/beginlatex/beginlatex-3.6.pdf</a> +<dt><tt><i>Not so Short Introduction</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf">info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf</a> + (in English, you may browse for sources and other language versions at + <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/lshort/">info/lshort/</a>) +<dt><tt><i>Simplified LaTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/simplified-latex/simplified-intro.ps">info/simplified-latex/simplified-intro.ps</a> + +<dt><tt><i>The sins of LaTeX users</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.pdf">info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.pdf</a>; + source also available: <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.tex">info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.tex</a> +</dl> +<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=man-latex">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=man-latex</a> +</body> |