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Re: [PLUG] learning TEX/LaTEX
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Used it for a while in college (TeX). It's very powerful. If I recall
correctly there're a couple books, 'The TeXbook' by Donald E. Knuth, and
"The LaTeX Users Guide' or something similar. Check out
http://www.bookpool.com (I'm not much of a fan of Amazon) and search on
Latex for 9 titles. I don't see one I recognize, but it's been about 10
years ago.
I used to check The TeXbook out of our college library and use it
extensively. The only downside I can think of is the lack of WYSIWYG
editing. If you've got a printer to do a lot of output testing, or
aren't very picky about output appearance then you'll do fine. Of
course, you may be able to preview on Linux/Unix much easier now than I
could back then.
Kevin
shux@subculture.org wrote:
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> Hello Everyone,
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> I was wondering if anyone on this list is proficient in, or simply uses TeX or LaTex. I would like to learn this system and was just looking for pointers to books or resources for a beginner. My main goals are to write letters, essays, and especially research papers. Should I use something else? I have looked around a lot and found basic tutorials, but I was also wondering what peoples opinions on LaTeX are.
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> Thank You Very Much,
> Xtian Betz
>
> shux@subculture.org | aim:shuxlos
>
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