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

[Reinaldo]

Hi Guys,

What I can say is, around the www there are many books structured like
tutorials guiding newbies during (La)TeX learning. Maybe the diff is only
the cover page. ;( Please do not forget youtube videos classes.

I believe a book should cover the range of real problems related to
research / academic stuffs, at first. Think about, few *Lato* explanations
(limit of pages) should be better w/ *Strictu* examples.

As soon as possible, people is looking for LaTeX contents able to fulfil
their mind.
I know this is not so easy, but it will be extremely useful and different.

I agree, examples are the most promising piece of art in a book but
line-by-line, we have them.

Past, I reviewed LaTeX and Friends[van Dongen](newbies’ bible here in
Brazil), inspired from “LaTeX line by Line” and “LaTeX quick Start”
(Congrats Lance!! for sharing me w/ my friend and highLevel students).
However, these are amazing books, easy to read and capture the (La)TeX
essence, please, see them and make them diff.

Please, let me know how could I help you.

Sorry my bad English. I am rusty.

Best.





On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 1:19 AM, Matt Kline <matt at bitbashing.io> wrote:

> Hi Karl,
>
> > My general comment is: more examples, less text.
>
> I tried to provide a quick example for almost every feature I mention.
> Could you elaborate a bit? Do you think it needs more document examples,
> instead of the small snippets it has now? I'm not sure how I'd structure
> that
> offhand, but I'm curious what you have in mind.
>
> > There is no point in discussing microtypography at all with xelatex. It
> > only supports kerning, not font expansion, which is the interesting part.
>
> Unless I'm mistaken, XeTeX also supports character protrusion.
> It's certainly not as... prominent as font expansion, but it is helpful.
>
> I'm trying to write something that isn't just a "how to" guide, but also a
> bit
> of a sales pitch for what sets LaTeX apart from Word, LibreOffice, etc.,
> Microtypography seems worth mentioning for a page or two for this reason.
>
> Cheers,
> Matt
>
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