[YLUG] LyTeX

jmclaugh at cs.york.ac.uk jmclaugh at cs.york.ac.uk
Wed Dec 14 15:37:34 UTC 2011


I'd like to chip in with my guide of choice, "The Not So Short
Introduction to LaTeX 2E":

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/

James.

> http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/novices/
>
> Is my guide of choice, and I've found it useful for everything from
> getting
> started to some more tricky bits and bobs.
>
> Maybe it's of help to you.
>
> HTH
>
> ^Tom
>
>
> On Wednesday, 14 December 2011, Zoe Stephenson <zoe at daeghnao.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 03:46:48PM +0000, Harry Mills wrote:
>>> Knowing Zoe she may still have the slides...
>>
>> I have many different sets of slides for LaTeX. However, I don't really
>> have anything all that introductory. The stuff I recall from many years
>> ago was messing about with fonts.
>>
>> I'm currently pondering taking a course that I helped with in the CS
>> department and turning it into an 8-part introductory thing. It requires
>> some decent time to put into it though, and other commitments have
>> gotten in the way.
>>
>> The main trouble with learning LaTeX these days is that it's been around
>> for nearly 30 years and a lot of stuff that you read about it is from
>> the early days; getting hold of good recent information can be tricky if
>> you don't already know the landscape. Something to bear in mind if
>> you're just starting out.
>>
>> My personal recommendation is to grab a recentish copy of Kopka and
>> Daly's book and go through that. Meanwhile, I'll see if I can find any
>> time at all to do things.
>>
>> --
>>  -- zoe
>>
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