Re: [OT] LaTeX

[Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>]

On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:12:38 -0500
Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hello DU
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> 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?
> 

under testing/unstable you want texlive, for stable, possibly tetex if I recall
correctly.

I never worked with the vim extension. I use emacs with auctex and lyx (a
mostly WYSIWYG latex editor). You may also want to have a look at texmaker
which is rather nice.

As for learning latex,
look with google (it's also probably in some debian package) for the not so
short introduction to latex. As for books, the classics are
latex: a document preparation system by leslie lamport
and the latex companion

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