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+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label tutorials</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>(La)TeX Tutorials, etc.</h3>
+<p>Some very fine tutorials have been written, over the years. Michael
+Doob's splendid 'Gentle Introduction' to Plain TeX (available on
+CTAN) has been stable for a very long time. Another contender
+in the same game is from one D. R. 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 J&uuml;rgen 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 &amp; 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>