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

[Duvvuri Venu Gopal]

Good attempt. I agree with Peter Flynn. I distribute LaTeX tutorials
prepared by TUG India group during my training programs (conducted more
than 20 till date). I also provide soft copy of Peter flynn.'s book!!!

But I require a book that can fill the gaps left in LaTeX tutorials -
editors, bibliography database creaters, xelatex etc.

All the best.

On Feb 14, 2018 7:24 PM, "Johannes Böttcher" <johannesbottcher at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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