Steve, for LaTeX documentation, the best place is to look in the doc/base
directory of your TeX distribution. That's for LaTeX stuff, mind you. Also,
have a look at the following URL's:
http://www.crosswinds.net/~zeimusu/tex/toc.html
http://www.astro.ke.dk/help/LaTeX/ltx-2.html
http://www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_toc.html
For day-to-day practical tips and tricks, and other quick references, look at
Herbert Voss's page. You can link to it from the LyX website. TeX is a
convoluted mess to learn, IMHO, though well worth the effort. Bottom line is,
you have to dive in the deep end.
On Sunday 19 August 2001 10:36 am, you wrote:
> Steve Litt wrote:
> > Where is there a simple LaTeX jumpstart doc for newbies? I'm having
> > serious trouble understanding the .cls and .sty files in
> > /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/.
>
> http://www.tug.org or on your local tex system
> http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/LatexDocs.html
>
> cls-files are the basic files for the docs. you need
> exectly one of them! sty-files are additions, which
> are sometimes helpful, but you don't need any of them
> by definition. in reality you always choose some of
> them to enhance the cls-file.
>
> Herbert
