[edutex] Seeking feedback on a beginner's guide to LaTex

[Johannes Böttcher]

Welcome, the LaTeX Wikibook is full of obsolete stuff and bad advice. It
cannot be a base for a good guide.

As a long time LaTeX helper, I only recommend to install TeX Live from TUG
upstream. No Linux distribution stuff.
MacTeX is TL with a bit extra. I would rather mention MikTeX for Windows.

On 14 Feb 2018 14:33, "Matt Kline" <matt at bitbashing.io> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'm working on a beginner's guide for LaTeX that:
>
> 1. Is short. (I got started with help from the LaTeX Wikibook and guides in
>    CTAN's "Tutorial LaTeX" topic, but those are a bit too long to
> recommend as
>    brief primers. They're _fantastic_ references, but when a coworker asks
>    for an intro, throwing >150 pages their way seems counterproductive.)
>
> 2. Focuses on modern LaTeX features, such as Unicode input, OpenType
> support,
>    and microtypography. (A beginner coming from other desktop publishing
> tools
>    doesn't need to know - at least not right away - about input encodings,
>    font metric files, and so on.)
>
> I'm looking for some review from the LaTeX community, but unfortunately I'm
> not quite sure where to turn - is this a good venue for it?
> Would you recommend any others?
>
> You can find a draft at https://assets.bitbashing.io/misc/latex-book.pdf
> Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Best,
> Matt Kline
>
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