Re: [OT] LaTeX

["Michael Marsh" <michael.a.marsh@gmail.com>]

On Nov 25, 2007 4:12 PM, Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to begin writing my coursework for college in LaTeX, but I've
> no clue where to start. I began by installing the vim-latexsuite
> package, but that didn't seem to really work too well (The help pages
> are both missing), and I have no clue where to start to learn LaTeX.
>
> Any point in the right direction would really help!
>
> Also, for the Debian related question; What package would people out
> there recommend for compiling and viewing LaTeX?

You didn't say which release you're using, so if "texlive" is
available, install that.  If not, install "tetex".  texlive is a
meta-package, and suggests texlive-doc-en, which contains
/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc-en/english/lshort-english/lshort.pdf

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