LaTeX/Links

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Here are some other online resources available:

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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

http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq

  • TeX on Mac OS X: Guide to using TeX and LaTeX on a Mac

http://www.rna.nl/tex.html

  • 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

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