LaTeX/Links
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[edit] Community
- The TeX Users Group Includes links to free versions of (La)TeX for many kinds of computer.
- comp.text.tex Newsgroup for (La)TeX related questions
- CTAN hundreds of add-on packages and programs
[edit] Tutorials/FAQs
- Tobias Oetiker's Not So Short Introduction to LaTex2e:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf also at
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/lshort/lshort.pdf
- Peter Flynn's beginner's guide (formatting):
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/beginlatex/beginlatex-3.6.pdf
- The AMS Short Math Guide for LaTeX, a concise summary of math formula typesetting features
http://www.ams.org/tex/amslatex.html
- amsmath users guide (PDF) and related files:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/amslatex/math/
- LaTeX Primer from the Indian TeX Users Group:
http://sarovar.org/projects/ltxprimer/
- LaTeX Primer
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/LaTeXPrimer/
- PSTricks--fancy graphics exploiting PDF capabilities
http://sarovar.org/projects/pstricks/
- PDFScreen--create LaTeX PDF files that have navigation buttons used for presentations:
http://sarovar.org/projects/pdfscreen/
- David Bausum's list of TeX primitives (these are the fundamental commands used in TeX):
http://www.tug.org/utilities/plain/cseq.html
- Leslie Lamport's manual for the commands that are unique to LaTeX (commands not used in plain TeX):
http://www.tex.uniyar.ac.ru/doc/latex2e.pdf
- The UK TeX FAQ List of questions and answers that are frequently posted at comp.text.tex
- TeX on Mac OS X: Guide to using TeX and LaTeX on a Mac
- Text Processing using LaTeX
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/
- The (La)TeX encyclopaedia
http://tex.loria.fr/index.html
- Hypertext Help with LaTeX
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/latex/
- EpsLatex: a very comprehensive guide to images, figures and graphics
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/epslatex.pdf
- The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List (in PDF)
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf
- Getting to Grips with LaTeX (HTML) Collection of Latex tutorials taking you from the very basics towards more advanced topics
http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex/index.html
- Chapter 8 (about typesetting mathematics) of the LaTeX companion
http://www.macrotex.net/texbooks/latexcomp-ch8.pdf
[edit] Reference
- LaTeX Project Site
- The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network Latest (La)TeX-related packages and software
- TeX Directory Structure, used by many (La)TeX distributions
- Natural Math converts natural language math formulas to LaTeX representation
- Obsolete packages and commands
- Lamport's book LaTeX: A Document Preparation System

