Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 21:26:08 -0700 From: Mike Allison <mallison@konnections.com> To: Ruslan Shevchenko <Ruslan@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: teTeX, latex, Lyx Books Message-ID: <349DEBE0.3AA@konnections.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971221191632.2278A-100000@barnowl> <349C9323.1A640FA@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> <19971222130017.30553@lemis.com> <349C9CB0.BE5D4BD0@Shevchenko.kiev.ua>
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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. Anyway you go, there's no better system. If you need any help, feel free to contact me direct. -Mike Ruslan Shevchenko wrote: > > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 03:55:16AM +0000, Ruslan Shevchenko wrote: > > ? John Kenagy wrote: > > ? > > ?? Now that I've about got a behemoth of a text processing system > > ?? loaded up. I need to know how to use it!;-) > > ?? > > ?? Anybody got any reccomended books on latex, tex (teTeX), etc.? > > ? > > ? > > ? 1. TeX book by D. Knuth. > > > > Read this and watch your brain turn to mush. I think it's one of the > > most useless books I've come across. It's full of arcania, and > > instead of telling you what to do, it presents everything as a series > > of problems. As if TeX wasn't enough of a problem by itself. > > > > Hm, of course, it is not introduction for dummies, but the book is > very well. > > And where you want to find any other *complete* description of TeX ? > > > 2. LaTeX users quide by L. Lamport. > > > > This book is better. But then, so are most books. > > > > As may be evident, I don't like TeX. It's not for want of trying; I > > used it exclusively for several years. Troff was like a breath of > > fresh air. Don't take this as a criticism of lyx; I haven't tried > > lyx, and if it hides the obscenities of TeX well, it could be quite > > useful. > > > > TeX is a world and Tex is a culture. In this it is simular to UNIX. > > > Greg
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