Re: text floating around pictures using LaTeX
Andrew Perrin <aperrin@email.unc.edu> writes:
AP> I always find good answers to LaTeX questions on comp.text.tex.
The other extremely useful thing to do is install the tetex-doc
package, and then browse through /usr/share/doc/texmf (or,
equivalently, /usr/share/texmf/doc). Many (most?) of the LaTeX
extension packages have documentation hidden here, and there's even a
reasonable introduction to LaTeX buried there
(latex/general/lshort.dvi). If you already know what you're looking
for, you can use texdoc(1), which is essentially a combination of find
and xdvi; 'texdoc lshort' will let you view the aforementioned
document. (So if you have a package and wants to know how it works,
'texdoc $PACKAGENAME' will often, though not always, win.)
If you're into buying books, Leslie Lamport's book (LaTeX: A Document
Processing System) is a reasonable introduction. IMHO, The LaTeX
Companion isn't terribly useful (it's mostly a rehashing of the
already-available online documentation). However, I've found A Guide
to LaTeX (can't remember authors) to be a useful reference, and if you
have some clue already it's probably a good first book to buy.
(And, if you consider yourself a TeXpert, printing a copy of the LaTeX
source is immensely useful; in its absence, looking at `kpsewhich
latex.ltx` can be somewhat informative as well. \expandafter is your
friend. :-)
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