Craige McWhirter wrote:
> Btw people, take the time to look at latex. I'm now only using Star
> Office et al to open documents others send me. I'm still coming to grips
> with it but as advertised, it does help you focus on content over layout
> and the documents produced are nice.
>
> Can anyone recommend a good latex book before I go spend my hard earned?
The easiest book is by SIAM, "Learning LaTeX"
(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
I think this is easy but you will quickly need Lamports book. I'd rate
it as very suitable for high school or a non-technical user.
Quoting from "http://www.latex-project.org/intro.html"
<quote>
The source of information about writing LaTeX documents is LaTeX: A
Document Preparation System
by Leslie Lamport, Addison-Wesley, 2nd edition, 1994, ISBN
0-201-52983-1.
For a comprehensive guide to LaTeX packages, read The LaTeX Companion by
Goossens, Mittelbach
and Samarin, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-54199-8.
If you want to include graphical elements in your documents, you should
get The LaTeX graphics Companion by Goossens, Rahtz and Mittelbach,
Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-291-85469-4.
</quote>
My advice is start with Lamports book. It covers just about everything
at a good technical level but can be used as an intro for someone new.
Rate it as 1st year uni level. The Goossens books are more technical,
they presume you are not new to LaTeX and cover some very powerful
things with contributed LaTeX packages.
After that look at Goosens.
Mike
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