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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label tutbitslatex</title>
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<h3>Specialised (La)TeX tutorials</h3>
<p/>The AMS publishes a &#8220;Short Math Guide for LaTeX&#8221;, which is
available (in several formats) via
<a href="http://www.ams.org/tex/amslatex.html">http://www.ams.org/tex/amslatex.html</a> (the &#8220;Additional
Documentation&#8221; about half-way down the page.
<p/>Herbert Voss has written an extensive guide to mathematics in
LaTeX (a German version of which is published as a book).  The
guide is part of his &#8220;<a href="FAQ-doc-dirs.html">tips and tricks</a>&#8221; and
a copy is maintained on CTAN.

<p/>Two documents written more than ten years apart about font usage in
TeX are worth reading: 
<a href="href=&#8217;http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb14-2/tb39rahtz-nfss.pdf">Essential NFSS</a>
by Sebastian Rahtz, and
<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2006-1/schmidt/schmidt.pdf">Font selection in LaTeX</a>,
cast in the form of an FAQ, by Walter Schmidt.  A general
compendium of font information (including the two above) may be found
on the <a href="http://www.tug.org/fonts/">TUG web site</a>.
<p/>Peter Smith&#8217;s

  
  &#8220;<a href="http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/teaching_staff/Smith/LaTeX/">LaTeX for Logicians</a>&#8221;
covers a rather smaller subject area, but is similarly comprehensive
(mostly by links to documents on relevant topics, rather than as a
monolithic document).
<p/>Keith Reckdahl&#8217;s &#8220;Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX2e&#8221; is an
excellent introduction to graphics use.  It&#8217;s available on
CTAN, but the sources aren&#8217;t available (promised &#8220;some time
soon&#8221;).
<p/>Kjell Magne Fauske offers a set of examples of the use of the drawing
packages 
<a href="FAQ-drawing.html">PGF and TikZ</a>; the 
<a href="http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/">examples catalogue</a>
includes examples (with output) from the package documentation as well
as code written by the author himself.
<p/>Vincent Zoonekynd provides a set of excellent (and graphic) tutorials
on the programming of 
<a href="http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_title/0.html">title page styles</a>,
<a href="http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html">chapter heading styles</a>
and
<a href="http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_section/0.html">section heading styles</a>.
In each file, there is a selection of graphics representing an output
style, and for each style, the code that produces it is shown.
<p/>An invaluable step-by-step setup guide for establishing a &#8220;work
flow&#8221; 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&#8217;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 &#8220;letter&#8221; paper sizes.  The
complete kit is available on CTAN (distributed with the
author&#8217;s macros for papers submitted for IEEE publications).
The issues are also covered in a later 
<a href="FAQ-dvips-pdf.html">FAQ answer</a>.
<p/>Documentation of Japanese TeX use appears at least twice on the web:
Haruhiko Okumura&#8217;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/>One &#8220;Tim&#8221; documents pTeX (a TeX system widely used in Japan)
in his

  
  &#8220;<a href="http://www.users.waitrose.com/~nihilist/English_Notes_on_pTex.pdf">English notes on pTeX</a>&#8221;.
<p/>Some university departments make their local documentation available
on the web.  Most straightforwardly, there&#8217;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&#8217;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>





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<dt><tt><i>Graphics in LaTeX2e</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/epslatex.zip">info/epslatex</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/epslatex/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/epslatex.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>testflow</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/testflow">macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/testflow</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/testflow.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>Herbert Voss&#8217;s Maths tutorial</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/math/voss/mathmode/Mathmode.pdf">info/math/voss/mathmode/Mathmode.pdf</a>
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