[wplug] OT again: LaTeX primers

[Hagbard Celine]

Oh, I don't much *like* the way Word does its thing; I think I've used Word
twice in the last five years...

HC

On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 02:23:09PM -0400, Patrick Wagstrom wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 04:54 -0400, Hagbard Celine wrote:
> > Hi again,
> > 
> > Following an Eric Cooper suggestion, I downloaded teTeX, built it, and even
> > played with it a bit.  Looks like this may work!  Yay!
> > 
> > One thing I wonder, though.  Can someone (Eric, maybe), point me to some
> > introductory and/or reference texts to TeX/LaTeX?  I might as well learn *how*
> > to use it... :o)
> > 
> > Thanks again,
> > HC
> 
> If you're looking for just a brief introduction try:
> 
> "The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e"
> http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/
> 
> It's available in way too many languages and generally tells what you
> need to know to get going with LaTeX.  It's what I used to learn the
> language five or six years ago.
> 
> The Indian Tex Users Group also put out a nice little primer that tells
> you how to do more eyecandy type stuff at:
> 
> http://sarovar.org/projects/ltxprimer/
> 
> 
> The TeX users group has a good selection of other helpful resources at:
> 
> http://www.tug.org/begin.html
> 
> Hope this helps.  It takes a while to get out of the mindset of Word,
> where you have to position everything yourself.  It's all about letting
> go and just trusting that TeX will do it right (at least most of the
> time).
> 
> --Patrick
> 
> PS.  One thing I'm surprised that many people miss is pdflatex.  In most
> cases just substitute pdflatex for latex on the command line and you'll
> get a nice looking PDF, instead of having to go through dvi->ps->pdf and
> then seeing it create horrible looking fonts in Acrobat reader.
> 
> 
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