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LaTeX: More Resources

LaTeX Resources

Mark Senn <mds@purdue.edu>

April 21, 2000

Here are some references to consult regarding LaTeX. The references are sorted in the order I suggest looking for LaTeX answers. If the following do not answer your question and you are at Purdue University's Engineering Computer Network you may email latex@ecn.purdue.edu to get your question answered.

Books

A Guide to LaTeX, Third Edition, by Helmut Kopka and Patrick W. Daly, Published by Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-39825-7.

The LaTeX Companion by Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, and Alexander Samarin, Published by Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-54199-8. Get second printing, revised May 1994, or newer.
Purdue Engineering Library call number 686.22544536 G644L 1994.
Purdue Engineering Library call number 686.22544536 G644L 1994 c.2.

LaTeX: A Document Preparation System, Second Edition, by Leslie Lamport. Published by Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-52983-1.
Purdue Physics Library call number 686.22544 L198L 1994b
Purdue Engineering Library call number 686.22544 L198L 1994b c.2

The TeXbook, by Donald Knuth. Published by Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-13447-0.

The LaTeX Graphics Companion: Illustrating documents with TeX and PostScript, by Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz, and Frank Mittelbach. Published by Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-85469-4.

The LaTeX Web Companion: integrating TeX, HTML, and XML, by Michel Goossens and Sebastian Rahtz with Eitan Gurari, Ross Moore, and Robert Sutor. Published by Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-43311-7.

Software

Information about how to get ECN's copy of the teTeX software, including ECN's local teTeX tree, will be posted here later.

Talks I've Given

I've given the following LaTeX-related short courses:

BibTeX
- Beginning BibTeX (get the next four files)
LaTeX
- Beginning LaTeX
- Intermediate LaTeX
- What's So Good About LaTeX (get the next ? files)
  - whats.ps
  - add rest of files here