[OS X TeX] LaTeX Books

[Paulo Ferreira]

>>Some time ago (15th of June) Herb Schultz wrote among other things:



>
>The TeX primitive \mark is associated with the ability to pick out 
>first and last marks in a page for use in the heading. If you don't 
>already have it, get `The LaTeX Companion,' 2nd Edition, by 
>Mittelbach, Goosens, Braams, Carlisle and Rowley; a must have to get 
>quite deep into LaTeX. For many things `Guide to LaTeX,' 4th 
>Edition, by Kopka and Daley, is wonderful although not as detailed. 
>I'd say get both!
>


Just a tip about these books. "LaTeX Companion 2nd ed" has a list price of
$59.99 USD and "Guide to LaTeX 4th ed" has a list price of $49.99 USD.

They are very good books (for me) and they complement each other).


BUT, there is a box called "The LaTeX Companions, Revised Set" that has
both books plus "The LaTeX Graphics Companion" and "The Latex Web Companion",
in a total of four LaTeX books.

The ISBN is 0321269446 and there is a page about it at:
<http://www.awprofessional.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0321269446&rl=1>


Doing a search with google the box can be bought for $134.00 USD
from:
http://www.nerdbooks.com/isbn/0321269446

No experience with the above store.

My box was bought from http://www.ecampus.com on January at $122.49 USD.
Now they want $164.49 USD.  OUCH !!!!!!

http://www.ecampus.com/bk_detail.asp?ISBN=0321269446

One good thing of the box is that the shipping to pay is only
for one "book" usually.


Greetings
Paulo  Ferreira


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