[OS X TeX] Books?
Andreas Gschwendtner
andreas_gschwendtner at yahoo.de
Tue Sep 3 17:11:57 CEST 2002
On Dienstag, September 3, 2002, at 04:05 Uhr, Juan Manuel Palacios
wrote:
> which book would anyone here recommend for learning general LaTeX
> typesetting skills? I've heard the two kings are Lamport's book and
> Kopka's "A Guide To LaTeX". Which others for general LaTeX would you
> recommend? If these were the only two choices, which would you pick,
> why, how would you compare them?
Lamport's LaTeX Handbook is *very* well written but doesn't cover all
the details. It's good for a start: buy that one, if you want to learn
the basics of typesetting with LaTeX.
If you want to go a little deeper, Kopka's book is excellent. If you
intend to use LaTeX a lot and to write more than "10-page-papers", you
should definitely read it, as it covers almost all the questions that
arise when you use LaTeX heavily. It is great as a reference. The
downside is, that it is quite expensive if you buy all three
volumes...(but I think it is worth the money!).
"The not so short guide to LaTeX2e" is also good and has a big plus:
it's free! (download from CTAN). But it is not comprehensive enough for
my taste...
HIH, Andreas
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