[dundee] LaTeX

[Mark]

Just found this, thought it might be of use.....
http://tuxtraining.com/2009/01/16/learning-latex
http://tuxtraining.com/files/lshort.pdf


Mark



----- Original Message ----
From: Kris Davidson <davidson.kris at gmail.com>
To: Colin Brough <Colin.Brough at blueyonder.co.uk>
Cc: Tayside Linux User Group <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, 3 February, 2009 19:46:12
Subject: Re: [dundee] LaTeX

Excellent thanks, I was leaning toward learning LaTeX and not an
intermediary anyway.

2009/2/3 Colin Brough <Colin.Brough at blueyonder.co.uk>:
> Kris Davidson wrote:
>> Okay first calm down, second I apologise to anyone if that conjured up
>> images you'd rather not have.
>>
>> I am of course referring to the document markup and preparation
>> system, its been on my big-ass-list-of-things-to-do-and-learn for a
>> while. I finally cracked; I've got sick and tired of fighting with
>> Open Office trying to get the formatting the way I want it.
>>
>> Anyway, I'm looking for some decent resources (beyond what comes up
>> during a cursory Google search) and if possible some good templates or
>> links to good templates.
>
> I did a  presentation to TLUG back in '05; here are the notes I passed
> round then:
>
>        http://www.colinbrough.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/2005_03_07_LaTeX.tex
>        http://www.colinbrough.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/2005_03_07_LaTeX.pdf
>        http://www.colinbrough.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/cmb2.sty
>
> (The PDF is produced from the .tex file, so you can see how I did the
> things in the PDF. There are some web resources mentioned in
> there. The .sty is a style file used by the .tex file.)
>
> If you are sick of fighting with OpenOffice, then lyx is just going to
> be a different opponent - you'll quickly get frustrated knowing you
> should be able to do something (in LaTeX), but lyx isn't letting you
> get at it...
>
> comp.text.tex is probably the definitive place to go ask questions,
> though its quite high volume and can be quite technical. I've been
> using LaTeX since about 1988, so am quite happy to help! I learn best
> by asking "how to I do XXXX?" as I'm faced with something I want to
> do, then slowly adding to my knowledge. The only LaTeX book I actually
> own is Leslie Lamport's original "The LaTeX document preparation
> system", which I only rarely refer to now.
>
> --
>
> Cheers
>
> Colin
>
> Rev Colin Brough
> Minister
> Fintry Parish Church of Scotland, Dundee
> Scottish Charity Number: SC020742
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Colin Brough                            Colin.Brough at blueyonder.co.uk
>
>

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