Online introductions: LaTeX
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.
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
(http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/beginlatex/html/).
Harvey Greenberg’s ‘Simplified Introduction to LaTeX’ was written
for a lecture course, and is also available on CTAN (in PostScript
only, unfortunately).
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.
Edith Hodgen’s
LaTeX, a Braindump
starts you from the ground up — giving a basic tutorial in the use
of Linux to get you going (rather a large file...).
Its parent site, David Friggens’
documentation page is a
useful collection of links in itself.
Andy Roberts’ introductory material
is a pleasing short introduction to the use of (La)TeX; some of the
slides for actual tutorials are to be found on the page, as
well.
Chris Harrison’s
TeX book
presents basic LaTeX with useful hints for extensions
Nicola Talbot’s
LaTeX for complete novices
does what it claims: the author teaches LaTeX at the University of
East Anglia. That is one of several of Nicola’s
introductory tutorials,
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!).
An interesting (and practical) tutorial about what not to do is
l2tabu, 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).
- Beginner’s LaTeX
- info/beginlatex/beginlatex-3.6.pdf
- Not so Short Introduction
- info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf
(in English, you may browse for sources and other language versions at
info/lshort/)
- Simplified LaTeX
- info/simplified-latex/simplified-intro.ps
- Short Course in LaTeX
- info/Math_into_LaTeX-4/Short_Course.pdf
- The sins of LaTeX users
- info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.pdf;
source also available: info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.tex
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