<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 17.12.2008, at 06:36, Adam M. Goldstein wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 16, 2008, at 9:26 PM, G.H. Szylowsky PhD wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I admit that this is not the world record (175 pages). I found a package on TL with an 850 page guide.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Not having a reasonable intro, is a big problem.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>Beamer is a good example of lots of documentation, but easy to get into. The tutorial at the start enables one to start making basic presentations almost right away. Also the Gratzer book has a nice chapter on this. But then one can profit from scanning the manual to learn how to do more complex things.</div></blockquote><div><br></div>I doubt that anyone who says biblatex has bad documentation ever had a proper look at it. Actually, the first paragraph tells the reader which sections to look at for a quick start and the package comes with more than 30 examples.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>simon</div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">--</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Simon Spiegel</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Steinhaldenstr. 50</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">8002 Zürich</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Telephon: ++41 44 451 5334</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Mobophon: ++41 76 459 60 39</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.simifilm.ch">http://www.simifilm.ch</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">„</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: '-webkit-sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">W</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: '-webkit-sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">hen you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.</span>“</font></span></span> Abraham Maslow</div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>