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<h3>Online introductions: LaTeX</h3>
<p/>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.
<p/>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
(<a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/beginlatex/html/">http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/beginlatex/html/</a>).
<p/>Harvey Greenberg’s ‘Simplified Introduction to LaTeX’ was written
for a lecture course, and is also available on CTAN (in PostScript
only, unfortunately).
<p/>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.
<p/>Edith Hodgen’s
<a href="http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~david/latex/notes.pdf">LaTeX, a Braindump</a>
starts you from the ground up — giving a basic tutorial in the use
of <i>Linux</i> to get you going (rather a large file...).
Its parent site, David Friggens’
<a href="http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~david/latex/">documentation page</a> is a
useful collection of links in itself.
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<a href="http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex/">Andy Roberts’ 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’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’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’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 — fortunate people, the people of UEA!).
<p/>An interesting (and practical) tutorial about what <em>not</em> to do is
<i>l2tabu</i>, 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).
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<dt><tt><i>Beginner’s LaTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/beginlatex/beginlatex-3.6.pdf">info/beginlatex/beginlatex-3.6.pdf</a>
<dt><tt><i>Not so Short Introduction</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf">info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf</a>
(in English, you may browse for sources and other language versions at
<a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/lshort/">info/lshort/</a>)
<dt><tt><i>Simplified LaTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/simplified-latex/simplified-intro.ps">info/simplified-latex/simplified-intro.ps</a>
<dt><tt><i>Short Course in LaTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/Math_into_LaTeX-4/Short_Course.pdf">info/Math_into_LaTeX-4/Short_Course.pdf</a>
<dt><tt><i>The sins of LaTeX users</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.pdf">info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.pdf</a>;
source also available: <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.tex">info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.tex</a>
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