On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Micah J. Cowan wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:38:54AM -0700, Jonathan McPherson wrote: > > Dylan, > > > > > i am interested in learning about latex, and was wondering if there > > > were any book reccomendations out there.... > > > > I highly recommend "The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e, or LaTeX2e > > in 131 minutes", by Tobias Oetiker. > > > > This is a 145-page tome, and one of the best things about it is that you > > can download it in PDF for free. > > > > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf > > There is also, "LaTeX: A Document Preparation System", By Leslie > Lamport. It provides more information than lshort, IIRC. However, > AFAIK it is not free, and goes for about $37, which is a tad expensive > for ~250pp. Must be because it's such an esoteric subject... ;-)
That's a canonical book so might as well get it. But it's not the best book for the first-timers, IMHO... (But certainly not unusable.) There was this book I used to learn LaTeX. It was a really great book for beginners. I'd give it to you but I already gave it away... -Mark -- Mark K. Kim AIM: markus kimius Homepage: http://www.cbreak.org/ Xanga: http://www.xanga.com/vindaci Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/user.jsp?id=13046 PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E 5167 6822 94F0 F298 5DCE PGP key available on the homepage _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
