[texhax] available on-line documentation (was Re: Latex: dumbing down? (fwd))

[William Adams]

On Aug 29, 2006, at 11:05 AM, John R. Culleton wrote:

> LaTeX requires an in depth knowledge of the library of styles.
> The _LaTeX Companion_ is rather expensive at $51 or so from
> Amazon. Fortunately with pdftex or Context there is plenty of
> free doucmentation.

There's a lot of free documentation on LaTeX as well:

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=man-latex

Flynn's book in particular is quite nice.

Also not to be missed are Peter Wilson's manual for memoir

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/memman.pdf

and Philipp Lehman's nify Font Installation Guide:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide/ 
fontinstallationguide.pdf

and of course the LaTeX project itself has quite a bit of  
documentation available:

http://www.latex-project.org/guides/

_A Visual LaTeX FAQ_ is an especially nice one:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/visualFAQ/visualFAQ.pdf

William

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