From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 21 22:26:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA02093 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 22:26:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA02086 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 22:26:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id QAA00539; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 16:55:51 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19971222165551.29241@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 16:55:51 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: mallison@konnections.com Cc: Ruslan Shevchenko , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: teTeX, latex, Lyx Books References: <349C9323.1A640FA@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> <19971222130017.30553@lemis.com> <349C9CB0.BE5D4BD0@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> <349DEBE0.3AA@konnections.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <349DEBE0.3AA@konnections.com>; from Mike Allison on Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 09:26:08PM -0700 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 09:26:08PM -0700, Mike Allison wrote: > Here's some titles I have used and abused to my heart's content: > > "A Guide to Latex2e" (2nd ed) Kopka & Daly > "The Latex Companion" Goosens Mittelbach and Samarin > > and an excellent beginners guide for Plain Tex: > > "A Plain Tex Primer" Malcolm Clark > > I started with Tex so Clark's was the first I bought. I still refer to > it often, even in Latex. > > Stay away from earlier Latex books like Hahn's (unless it's been > updated), as they deal with the older Latex 2.09 which has substantial > differences. The one I (still sometimes) use is "TeX for the impatient", by Paul Abrahams. I still don't think it's the perfect book on TeX, but it'll save you the hair-tearing frustration engendered by the TeXbook. Greg