Learning LaTeX

by David F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham

This short, well-written book covers the material essential for learning LATEX without any unnecessary detail. It discusses incisive examples that teach LATEX in a powerful yet abbreviated fashion, including the following crucial numerous examples of widely used mathematical expressions; complete documents illustrating the creation of articles, reports, and overhead projector slides; troubleshooting tips to help you pinpoint an error; details of how to set up a bibliography and an index; information about LATEX resources available on the Internet. LATEX has become an extremely popular typesetting system and is widely used throughout the sciences. Students may use it to typeset reports and theses (particularly graduate students in any mathematics or computer science discipline).The authors cover LATEX 2e, the latest standard version at the time of publication. An appendix discusses the differences between 2e and the older version, 2.09.

Genres: Reference, Computers

184 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

Reviews

[John Warner]

Re-read this because I have been tinkering with my workflow set up and this involves going from org-mode in amacs to PDF files via LaTeX and I needed to refresh my memory of some basic LaTeX for the template. It is short enough with a few examples to get a good primer on the basics again.

[Tarah]

A very good overview of the LaTeX system. Although this can be considered just a pamphlet, it gets you running with LaTeX quicker than anything I've found online.