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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&rsquo;s arranged in the same way as the
TeXbook.  By contrast, you can view David Bausum&rsquo;s 
<a href="http://www.tug.org/utilities/plain/cseq.html">list of TeX primitives</a>
alphabetically or arranged by &ldquo;family&rdquo;.  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&rsquo;t seem to be a reference that takes in Plain TeX as
well as the primitive commands.
<p/>An interesting LaTeX &ldquo;cheat sheet&rdquo; is available from CTAN:
it&rsquo;s a list of (more or less) everything you &lsquo;ought to&rsquo; remember, for
basic LaTeX use.  (It&rsquo;s laid out very compactly for printing on N.\
American &lsquo;letter&rsquo;; printed on ISO A4, it strains aged eyes...)
<p/>Similarly, there&rsquo;s no completely reliable command-organised reference
to LaTeX.  The page (provided by NASA) 
<a href="http://www.giss.nasa.gov/latex/">Hypertext Help with LaTeX</a> is
recently much improved.  It still talks in LaTeX 2.09-isms in places,
but it&rsquo;s been updated for current LaTeX.  There are a number of
mirrors of the site, and it may be worth choosing a &ldquo;local&rdquo; one if
you&rsquo;re going to use it a lot.
<p/>Another LaTeX2e reference (provided by the Emerson Center of Emory
University) is: 
<a href="http://www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex2e/latex2e_toc.html">LaTeXe help</a>
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<dt><tt><i>Cheat sheet</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk  tex-archiveinfo/latexcheat/latexcheat/latexsheet.pdf">info/latexcheat/latexcheat/latexsheet.pdf</a>
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<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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