On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 09:49:07PM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote: > 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.)
I disagree here, I find it *very* accessible for beginners. It starts with the very basics, and moves on from there. It never gets into the really nitty gritty, so I certainly wouldn't consider it an /advanced/ book... I personally started with the free lshort, and then moved on to the Lamport book. Funny, though, I use plain TeX way more often than LaTeX... Guess it's coz I'm such a masochistic geek. -- Micah J. Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
