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- All About LaTeX...

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Terrific, well organized, source of information on LaTeX:
Wikibooks, LaTeX
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Good
introduction: Wikipedia on LaTeX
On TeX, the underlying
program:
Wikipedia on TeX
The LaTeX site:
The LaTeX-Project
Why LaTeX?
Notes and links from Dario Taraborelli, University of Surrey

- TeX Users Group
TeX Users Group:
http://www.tug.org/
is the prime informational site for the TeX
community. Link through their site to reach CTAN,
the place to download free TeX software. Also find
links to vendors and to many other useful TeX
related sites.
From TUG for New Users:
Getting Started with TeX, LaTeX, and Friends



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Free TeX Software
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CTAN
Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
is the authoritative collection of materials related to the TeX
typesetting system.

SourceForge.net
350 Free LaTeX Software Packages
SourceForge.net describes itself as
"the world's largest Open Source software
development web site, provides free hosting to Open
Source software development projects with a centralized resource for
managing projects, issues, communications, and code."



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Commercial TeX Software
(Offered as an informational service only)
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Word2TeX is a
converter designed in order to use with Microsoft Word and enables Microsoft
Word to save documents in LaTeX format. This gives the opportunity to convert
existing Microsoft Word documents to LaTeX and to create new LaTeX documents
right in your mainstream word processor rather than requiring a completely
separate editing environment. Using Word2TeX in conjunction with Microsoft Word,
you can easily create articles, technical reports, research papers,
dissertations and even entire books for such hard and not always comfortable
markup-based system as LaTeX.
TeX2Word is a
converter designed in order to use with Microsoft Word and enables Microsoft
Word to open documents in TeX format (this includes any TeX-based formats like
LaTeX, etc.). This gives the opportunity to convert existing TeX documents to
Microsoft Word.
CHIKRII SOFTWARE www.chikrii.com
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Commercial TeX Vendors
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Blue Sky Research
The makers of TeXtures.
Great TeX Software for the Mac. The
preview screen updates continually as
you type, only TeX application that does this.
Blue Sky Research, www.bluesky.com
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Personal TeX, Inc.
The first PC based TeX system, widely used,
time tested.
Personal TeX, Inc., www.pctex.com



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SUGGESTED BOOKS ON LaTeX
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Lists of LaTeX Books
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The Essential TeX/LaTeX Books
A longer
list of books on TeX/LaTeX


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Learn how to write LaTeX macros

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Donald E. Knuth
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The TeXbook
The definitive reference to TeX, by the author and Grand Master
of the language.
For those of you that want to look under the hood, and gain an
understanding of how LaTeX works and how to write macros, this
book is essential.

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Victor Eijkhout
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Tex by Topic: A Texnician's Reference
Unfortunately out-of-print, but you can download it
at the link below. A clear and very compact reference book on the inner workings of TeX.
If you want to learn how to write or understand LaTeX macros, Victor's
book, and Donald Knuth's The TeXbook are the two Bibles.
TeX by Topic (gzipped tar, browse)






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LaTeX for Beginners

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Leslie Lamport
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LaTeX: A Document Preparation System (2nd Edition)
(Paperback - Jul 10, 1994). Brief and pithy, the basic information.
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Helmut Kopka and Patrick W. Daly
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Guide to LaTeX (4th Edition)
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Good presentation and examples, a pleasant guide, I often use
this book for classes in Introductory LaTeX, but it is a
good reference for all levels of LaTeX users.
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George Grätzer
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Math Into LaTeX
(Paperback - Jun 22, 2000)
114 page sample on line
Help with using American Mathematical Society (AMS) commands
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George Grätzer
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First Steps in LaTeX
(Paperback - Oct 1, 1999)






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LaTeX in More Depth

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Alan Hoenig
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TeX Unbound: LaTeX and TeX Strategies for Fonts, Graphics, and More
(Paperback - April 2, 1998)
Best source of information on Fonts!
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Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Alexander Samarin
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The Latex Companion
(paperback)
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Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Sebastian Rahtz, and Denis Roegel
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LaTeX Graphics Companion, The (2nd Edition)
(Paperback - Aug 12, 2007)
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Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz, Eitan M. Gurari, and Ross Moore
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The LaTeX Web Companion: Integrating TeX, HTML, and XML
(Paperback - Jun 20, 1999)






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Books available to download

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Victor Eijkhout
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Tex by Topic: A Texnician's Reference
Victor Eijkhout’s excellent “TeX by Topic” in 2001 (it had been published by Addison-Wesley, but was long out of print). You can still get
a copy from Amazon, if you want a printed version.
If you want to learn how to write or understand LaTeX macros, Victor's
book, and Donald Knuth's The TeXbook are the two Bibles.
TeX by Topic (gzipped tar, browse)
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Paul W. Abrahams, Karl Berry and Kathryn A.
Hargreaves
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TeX for the
Impatient
another book whose unavailability many have lamented. The
authors have re-released the book under the GNU general documentation
licence, and it is available from CTAN.
TeX for the Impatient (gzipped tar, browse)
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Norm Walsh
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Making TeX Work
(originally published by O’Reilly) is also available (free) on the Web, at
Making TeX Work, Sourceforge or
Making TeX Work, CTAN
The book was an excellent
resource in its day, but while it is now somewhat dated, it still has
its uses, and is a welcome addition to the list of on-line resources.
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