[geeks] TeX, etc

[Ferris McCormick]

Depending on your application, there are several introductions which
might be to your taste.  I use the following as references:

  1.  Antoni Diller. LaTeX Line by Line (Wiley, 1983);
  2.  George Graetzer.  Math into LaTeX (Birkhaeuser, 1996);
  3.  Michel Goossens, et. al.  The LaTeX Companion.  (Addison-Wesley,
      1994)

There are several others I consult as needed.  If you can give some
ideas about what you want to use it for, I (or someone) might have
some thoughts;  otherwise, I suppose Diller/Goossens in combination
make as painless an introduction as any.

Another approach you can look at is using the LyX package if you
don't care for backslashes (I don't use the package, but its documentation
is pretty good.)

Let me know if I can be of any assistance; I am a TeX fanatic when
it comes to documentation, and I won't use anything else (there is a
good (and free) dvi->pdf converter which solves communications
problems with people who like WYSIWYG word processors on commonly
used PC-based systems.)

Regards,


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> Message: 8
> Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 01:34:09 -0600
> From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
> To: geeks at mrbill.net
> Subject: [geeks] TeX, etc.
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> Okay.  I need a good introductory tutorial.  Never really used TeX / laTeX
> before, but I got a bit of exposure to it back in '98-99 when I was responsible
> for taking TeX "source" and converting it to HTML documentation for the
> company I was working for at the time....
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> Bill
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> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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