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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label man-latex</title>
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<h3>Online introductions: LaTeX</h3>
<p/>A pleasing little document, &#8220;Getting something out of LaTeX&#8221; is
designed to give a feel of LaTeX to someone who&#8217;s never used it at
all.  It&#8217;s not a tutorial, merely helps the user to decide whether to
go on to a tutorial, and to &#8216;real&#8217; use of LaTeX.
<p/>Tobias Oetiker&#8217;s &#8216;(Not so) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e&#8217;, 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&#8217;s &#8220;Beginner&#8217;s LaTeX&#8221; (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&#8217;s &#8216;Simplified Introduction to LaTeX&#8217; was written
for a lecture course, and is also available on CTAN (in PostScript
only, unfortunately).
<p/>The fourth edition of George Gr&#228;tzer&#8217;s book &#8220;Math into LaTeX&#8221;
contains a &#8220;short course&#8221; in LaTeX itself, and that course has
been made publicly available on CTAN.
<p/>Philip Hirschhorn&#8217;s &#8220;Getting up and running with AMSLaTeX&#8221; 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&#8217;s 
<a href="http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~david/latex/notes.pdf">LaTeX, a Braindump</a>
starts you from the ground up &#8212; giving a basic tutorial in the use
of <i>Linux</i> to get you going (rather a large file&#8230;).
Its parent site, David Friggens&#8217; 
<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&#8217; 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&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;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 &#8212; fortunate people, the people of UEA!).
<p/>An interesting (and practical) tutorial about what <em>not</em> to do is
<i>l2tabu</i>, or &#8220;A list of sins of LaTeX2e users&#8221; by Mark
Trettin, translated into English by J&#252;rgen Fenn.  The
tutorial is available from CTAN as a PDF file (though
the source is also available).
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<dt><tt><i>Beginner&#8217;s LaTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/beginlatex/beginlatex-3.6.pdf">info/beginlatex/beginlatex-3.6.pdf</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/beginlatex.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>First LaTeX document</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/first-latex-doc.zip">info/first-latex-doc</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/first-latex-doc/">browse the directory</a>)

<dt><tt><i>Getting up and running with AMSLaTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/amslatex/primer.zip">info/amslatex/primer</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/amslatex/primer/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/amslatex-primer.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>Not so Short Introduction</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/lshort/english.zip">info/lshort/english</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/lshort/english/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/lshort-english.html">catalogue entry</a>
  (in English, you may browse for sources and other language versions at
  <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/lshort">info/lshort</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/lshort.html">catalogue entry</a>)
<dt><tt><i>Simplified LaTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/simplified-latex/simplified-intro.ps">info/simplified-latex/simplified-intro.ps</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/simplified-latex.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>Short Course in LaTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/Math_into_LaTeX-4/Short_Course.pdf">info/Math_into_LaTeX-4/Short_Course.pdf</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/math-into-latex-4.html">catalogue entry</a>

<dt><tt><i>The sins of LaTeX users</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.pdf">info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.pdf</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/l2tabu-english.html">catalogue entry</a>;
  source also available: <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.tex">info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.tex</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/l2tabu-english.html">catalogue entry</a>
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