[XeTeX] Where to start

[Benjamin Koppe]

Hello everyone,
I was told to switch to XeLaTeX, as this would be the new emerging  
star in typesetting. I study theology and therefor have to set Text in  
Greek, Hebrew (both the ancient version) and German (which is my  
mother tungue and works fine so far ;) ). So I looked throu the  
internet, but I find no place to start, like a rookie introduction.

It seems to be similar to LaTeX, but in the examples I found so far  
there are several commands I do not know and I'm nt always sure which  
command does what etc...

Where do all you guys have your knowlegde from? Do you read the source  
code?

I have a Macbook with MacTex and TeXShop, I loaded them this week so I  
guess I have the most recent version...
Is there anywhere in the MacTeX tree some docmentation I did not yet  
find? I mst confess, the whoe TeX trees were up to now very strange to  
me and though I was ever told there is documentation within it, I  
never found it... (nor did I seek to much, as for LaTeX there was  
enough good info in the internet...).

Any hints for this rookie?

De Benny