Joel Mayes wrote:
All the books mentioned so far are excellent, but probably a bit tough for a first shot at LaTeX. The LaTeX Companion is definitely not suitable as a beginners book, the Lamport one is a bit terse (more like an overview/reference) and the Graphics one is really specialised. I have the book by Kopka & Daly (3rd edition) and it is just wonderful. Fairly deep, but very easy going for the beginner, and certainly not an idiot's guide. The LaTeX Companion is the best /second/ book to buy on LaTeX, when you need to do tricky stuff that isn't covered in Kopka & Daly, and this /will/ happen if you are serious about LaTeX.-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Perrin <andrew_perrin@unc.edu> writes:Lamport's _LaTeX: A Document Preparation System_ and _The LaTeX Companion_ are good (the first is more of an introduction, the second a reference book). Also check out http://www.tug.org/interest.html for links to lots of good online documentation.I'd also recomend the LaTeX Graphics companion, if your going to be useing any graphics, Ignore the section on MusixTeX though it's out of date, and lilypond-book just as good a job with a lot less work. (no flames please) CheersJoel
lshort is great if you want a free overview, but all it does is give you an overall flavour. Lamport you can get whenever; not a very important one IMHO, which is strange considering he (or is it she?) invented LaTeX.
Graphics Companion is quite specialised. -AndrewP.S. Joel, I noticed your sig. Have you got any helpful anti-spam tips? (I am having /terrible/ problems with spam at the moment).
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