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<h3>Specialised (La)TeX tutorials</h3>
<p/>The AMS publishes a “Short Math Guide for LaTeX”, which is
available (in several formats) via
<a href="http://www.ams.org/tex/short-math-guide.html">http://www.ams.org/tex/short-math-guide.html</a>
<p/>Herbert Voss is developing a parallel document, that is also very
useful; it’s part of his “<a href="FAQ-doc-dirs.html">tips and tricks</a>” 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=’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’s
“<a href="http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/teaching_staff/Smith/LaTeX/">LaTeX for Logicians</a>”
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’s “Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX2e” is an
excellent introduction to graphics use. It’s available on
CTAN, but the sources aren’t available (promised “some time
soon”).
<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.fauskes.net/pgftikzexamples/">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 “work
flow” 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’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 “letter” paper sizes. The
complete kit is available on CTAN (distributed with the
author’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’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 “Tim” documents pTeX (a TeX system widely used in Japan)
in his
“<a href="http://www.users.waitrose.com/~nihilist/English_Notes_on_pTex.pdf">English notes on pTeX</a>”.
<p/>Some university departments make their local documentation available
on the web. Most straightforwardly, there’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’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>the
document is available in PostScript and PDF formats as
<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/epslatex/english/epslatex.ps">info/epslatex/english/epslatex.ps</a> and <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/epslatex/english/epslatex.pdf">info/epslatex/english/epslatex.pdf</a> respectively
<dt><tt><i>testflow</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/testflow/">macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/testflow/</a>
<dt><tt><i>Herbert Voss’s Maths tutorial</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/math/voss/mathmode/Mathmode.pdf">info/math/voss/mathmode/Mathmode.pdf</a>
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