>>> Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read >>> "TeX for the Impatient",available here: >>> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:24:31PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: >> A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-) On Tue, 15 May 2007, Andre Poenitz apparently wrote: > You found one of the propblems of TeX. I find that like complaining about the length of a Visual Basic book for Word users. (Not that books on Word don't hit amazing lengths as well.) lshort <URL:www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf> is a fine intro for most. Cheers, Alan Isaac