[texhax] The next to read after lshort?

[Juergen Fenn]

Am 09.04.11 11:38 schrieb Steven Woody:

> I found lshort sometimes cannot answer my question.  For example, when
> it talks about \newcommand, it even does not talk about how to use
> optional arguments.  In this kind of situation, what is the right
> documentation I should read?

Well, perhaps you might like turn to the documentation provided by the
LaTeX Project, cf.

  http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/bytopic.html#latexdocu

or Lamport's Book on LaTeX, or the LaTeX Companion. Or the UK TeX FAQ:

  http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq

Regards,
Jürgen.