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Wilkins, available on the web at +<a href="http://www.ntg.nl/doc/wilkins/pllong.pdf">http://www.ntg.nl/doc/wilkins/pllong.pdf</a> +<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 +versions in the some of the many languages it has been translated +into. +<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>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>TUG India is developing a series of online LaTeX tutorials +which can be strongly recommended: select single chapters at a time +from <a href="http://www.tug.org.in/tutorials.html">http://www.tug.org.in/tutorials.html</a> - the +set comprises two parts, "Text" and "Graphics", so far. +<p><a href="http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/andyr/misc/latex/index.html">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>Another item, not quite FAQ, not quite tutorial, is Herbert +Voss's excellent +<a href="http://texnik.de/">LaTeX tips and tricks</a>. +<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). +<p>The AMS publishes a "Short Math Guide for LaTeX", which is +available (in several formats) via +<a href="http://www.ams.org/tex/short-math-guide.html">http://www.ams.org/tex/short-math-guide.html</a> +<p>Herbert Voss is developing a parallel document, that is also very +useful; it's part of his "tips and tricks" mentioned above and is +also available on CTAN. + +<p>Keith Reckdahl's "Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX2e" is an +excellent introduction to graphics use, though it's slightly dated in +not discussing anything other than the <i>dvips</i> route. +Available on CTAN, but again without sources. +<p>An invaluable step-by-step setup guide for establishing a "work +flow" through your (La)TeX system, so that output appears at the +correct size and position on standard-sized paper, and that the print +quality is satisfactory, is Mike Shell's <i>testflow</i>. The +tutorial consists of a large plain text document, and there is a +supporting LaTeX file together with correct output, both in PostScript and +PDF, for each of A4 and "letter" paper sizes. The +complete kit is available on CTAN (distributed with the +author's macros for papers submitted for IEEE publications). +<p> + + +For Plain TeX commands a rather nice +<a href="http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/texcrib.pdf">quick reference booklet</a>, +by John W. Shipman, is available. +<p>Special-purpose tutorials are always useful, and an example is set by +Haruhiko Okumura's page on + +<a href="http://oku.edu.mie-u.ac.jp/~okumura/texfaq/japanese/">typesetting Japanese with Omega</a> +(the parent page is in Japanese, so out of the scope of this +FAQ). +<p>Some university departments make their local documentation available +on the web. Most straightforwardly, there's the simple translation of +existing documentation into HTML, for example the INFO +documentation of the (La)TeX installation, of which a sample is the +LaTeX documentation available at +<a href="http://www.tac.dk/cgi-bin/info2www?(latex)">http://www.tac.dk/cgi-bin/info2www?(latex)</a> +<p>More ambitiously, some university departments have enthusiastic +documenters who +make public record of their (La)TeX support. For example, Tim Love +(of Cambridge University Engineering Department) maintains his +deparment's pages at +<a href="http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/">http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/</a>, and Mimi +Burbank (of the School of Computer Science & Information Technology +at the University of Florida) manages her department's at +<a href="http://www.csit.fsu.edu/~mimi/tex/">http://www.csit.fsu.edu/~mimi/tex/</a> - both sets are fine +examples of good practice. +<p> + + + +<p>People have long argued for (La)TeX books to be made available on +the web, and +Victor Eijkhout's excellent "TeX by Topic" (previously published +by Addison-Wesley, but long out of print) was offered in this way at +Christmas 2001. The book is currently +available at <a href="http://www.eijkhout.net/tbt/">http://www.eijkhout.net/tbt/</a>; +it's not a beginner's tutorial but it's a fine reference +(contributions are invited, and the book is well +worth the suggested contribution). +<p>Addison-Wesley have also released the copyright of "TeX for the +Impatient" by Paul W. Abrahams, Karl Berry and Kathryn A. Hargreaves, +another book whose unavailability many have lamented. The authors +have re-released the book under the GNU general documentation +licence, and it is available from CTAN. +<p>Norm Walsh's "Making TeX Work" is also available (free) on the +Web, at <a href="http://makingtexwork.sourceforge.net/mtw/">http://makingtexwork.sourceforge.net/mtw/</a>; the sources +of the Web page are on CTAN. +<p>The book was an excellent resource in its day, but is now somewhat +dated; nevertheless, it still has its uses, and is a welcome addition +to the list of on-line resources. A project to update it is believed +to be under way. +<p>Jim Hefferon maintains a web page + +"<a href="http://www.ctan.org/installationadvice/">Managing a one-person TeX system</a>" +which provides a useful introduction to those who find they need to +manage a TeX system on a personal machine. It covers much of the +matters discussed in answers such as +"<a href="FAQ-wherefiles.html">Where to put new files</a>", +and thereby covers the gap left by the (possibly temporary) lack of +"<em>Making TeX work</em>". +<p>There's also (at least one) typographic style tutorial available on +the Web, the excellent +"<a href="http://www.nbcs.rutgers.edu/~hedrick/typography/typography.janson-syntax.107514.pdf">Guidelines for Typography in NBCS</a>". +In fact, its +<a href="http://www.nbcs.rutgers.edu/~hedrick/typography/index.html">parent page</a> +is also worth a read: among other things, it provides copies of the +"guidelines" document in a wide variety of primary fonts, for +comparison purposes. The author is careful to explain that he has no +ambition to supplant such excellent books as +<a href="FAQ-typebooks.html">Bringhurst's</a>, but the document (though it does +contain its Rutgers-local matter) is a fine introduction to the issues +of producing readable documents. +<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>Gentle Introduction</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/gentle/gentle.pdf">info/gentle/gentle.pdf</a> +<dt><tt><i>l2tabu</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> +<dt><tt><i>Graphics in LaTeX2e</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/epslatex.pdf">info/epslatex.pdf</a>; the + document is also available in PostScript format as <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/epslatex.ps">info/epslatex.ps</a> +<dt><tt><i>Making TeX Work</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/makingtexwork/mtw-1.0.1-html.tar.gz">info/makingtexwork/mtw-1.0.1-html.tar.gz</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, or 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>TeX for the Impatient</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient.zip">info/impatient</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/impatient/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>testflow</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/testflow/">macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/testflow/</a> +<dt><tt><i>Herbert Voss' Maths tutorial</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf">info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf</a> +</dl> +<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=tutorials">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=tutorials</a> +</body> |