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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label ref-doc</title>
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<h3>Reference documents</h3>
<p/>For TeX primitive 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; it&#8217;s arranged in the same way as the
TeXbook.  By contrast, you can view David Bausum&#8217;s 
<a href="http://www.tug.org/utilities/plain/cseq.html">list of TeX primitives</a>
alphabetically or arranged by &#8220;family&#8221;.  Either way, the list has a
link for each control sequence, that leads you to a detailed
description, which includes page references to the TeXbook.
<p/>There doesn&#8217;t seem to be a reference that takes in Plain TeX as
well as the primitive commands.
<p/>An interesting LaTeX &#8220;cheat sheet&#8221; is available from CTAN:
it&#8217;s a list of (more or less) everything you &#8216;ought to&#8217; remember, for
basic LaTeX use.  (It&#8217;s laid out very compactly for printing on N.\
American &#8216;letter&#8217;; printed on ISO A4, using Adobe
Acrobat&#8217;s &#8220;shrink to fit&#8221;, it strains aged eyes&#8230;)
<p/>For command organised references to LaTeX,  Karl Berry (et
al)&#8217;s 
<a href="http://home.gna.org/latexrefman">LaTeX reference manual</a> is (to
an extent) work in progress, but is generally reliable.
<p/>The reference provided by the Emerson Center of Emory
University), 
<a href="http://www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex2e/latex2e_toc.html">LaTeXe help</a>
also looks good.
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<dt><tt><i>Cheat sheet</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/latexcheat/latexcheat/latexsheet.pdf">info/latexcheat/latexcheat/latexsheet.pdf</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/latexcheat.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>LaTeX reference manual</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/latex2e-help-texinfo.zip">info/latex2e-help-texinfo</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/latex2e-help-texinfo/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/latex2e-help-texinfo.html">catalogue entry</a>
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<p><em>This answer last edited: 2010-12-08</em></p>
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=ref-doc">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=ref-doc</a>
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