Re: Tips and LaTeX docs
No disrespect to Lamport here, but can I suggest instead "A guide to LaTeX" by Kopka Daly? It is newer (1999), includes a lot of stuff that is not in Lamport's (but in one of the "companions"), its price is about the same as Lamport's, and I find it easy both to read and use as a reference. I'd say it is medium sized with great information; and some of my friends who own Lamport's end up borrowing mine from time to time. I actually looked at several Latex books before purchasing this one (and also read throught the readers reviews at amazon), and this was the clear winner for me. I've been using Latex for about 9 months (I use Lyx at home, but my departments machines don't have lyx so I used Latex on xemacs); I wrote my PhD thesis using Latex (and found it easy to fulfill the formatting requirements), submitted for publication 4 papers written with Latex (some to journals, which will remain unnamed, that have very twisted and idiosincratic formatting requirements), and I used just Kopka Daly's plus the very helpful answers of this list; I've also paid some visits to the CTAN archives and comp.text.tex (as suggested in this list). Just my 2 euros... Ramon On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, Jonathan Pennington wrote: Alright, I can't keep track of all these great little tips I keep seeing! Headers, page numbers, yada, this is great, but it's too much for me to categorize. I reckon it's just time to figure out how to do them myself instead of being horribly lazy and trying to wait till someone posts them. Are you guys getting all this information from "LaTeX: A Document Preparation System" By Leslie Lamport? I'm in the boonies and so can't go to the book store and leaf through it, but I remember it as being rather small when I glanced at it before. Is it small with great information instead of large and full of junk? If you guys tell me that's the book, I'll order it. I'd like to learn this the right way. Thanks -J -- Jonathan Pennington | A computer without Windows [EMAIL PROTECTED] | is like a dog without http://www.coastalgeology.org | bricks tied to its head. -- Ramón Díaz-Uriarte Dept. Zoology and Statistics University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706-1381 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOTE: starting 15-July-2000 new email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) phone: 608-238-8041
Re: Tips and LaTeX docs
No disrespect to Lamport here, but can I suggest instead "A guide to LaTeX" by Kopka Daly? It is newer (1999), includes a lot of stuff that is not in Lamport's (but in one of the "companions"), its price is about the same as Lamport's, and I find it easy both to read and use as a reference. I'd say it is medium sized with great information; and some of my friends who own Lamport's end up borrowing mine from time to time. I actually looked at several Latex books before purchasing this one (and also read throught the readers reviews at amazon), and this was the clear winner for me. I've been using Latex for about 9 months (I use Lyx at home, but my departments machines don't have lyx so I used Latex on xemacs); I wrote my PhD thesis using Latex (and found it easy to fulfill the formatting requirements), submitted for publication 4 papers written with Latex (some to journals, which will remain unnamed, that have very twisted and idiosincratic formatting requirements), and I used just Kopka Daly's plus the very helpful answers of this list; I've also paid some visits to the CTAN archives and comp.text.tex (as suggested in this list). Just my 2 euros... Ramon On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, Jonathan Pennington wrote: Alright, I can't keep track of all these great little tips I keep seeing! Headers, page numbers, yada, this is great, but it's too much for me to categorize. I reckon it's just time to figure out how to do them myself instead of being horribly lazy and trying to wait till someone posts them. Are you guys getting all this information from "LaTeX: A Document Preparation System" By Leslie Lamport? I'm in the boonies and so can't go to the book store and leaf through it, but I remember it as being rather small when I glanced at it before. Is it small with great information instead of large and full of junk? If you guys tell me that's the book, I'll order it. I'd like to learn this the right way. Thanks -J -- Jonathan Pennington | A computer without Windows [EMAIL PROTECTED] | is like a dog without http://www.coastalgeology.org | bricks tied to its head. -- Ramón Díaz-Uriarte Dept. Zoology and Statistics University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706-1381 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOTE: starting 15-July-2000 new email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) phone: 608-238-8041
Re: Tips and LaTeX docs
No disrespect to Lamport here, but can I suggest instead "A guide to LaTeX" by Kopka & Daly? It is newer (1999), includes a lot of stuff that is not in Lamport's (but in one of the "companions"), its price is about the same as Lamport's, and I find it easy both to read and use as a reference. I'd say it is medium sized with great information; and some of my friends who own Lamport's end up borrowing mine from time to time. I actually looked at several Latex books before purchasing this one (and also read throught the readers reviews at amazon), and this was the clear winner for me. I've been using Latex for about 9 months (I use Lyx at home, but my departments machines don't have lyx so I used Latex on xemacs); I wrote my PhD thesis using Latex (and found it easy to fulfill the formatting requirements), submitted for publication 4 papers written with Latex (some to journals, which will remain unnamed, that have very twisted and idiosincratic formatting requirements), and I used just Kopka & Daly's plus the very helpful answers of this list; I've also paid some visits to the CTAN archives and comp.text.tex (as suggested in this list). Just my 2 euros... Ramon On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, Jonathan Pennington wrote: > Alright, I can't keep track of all these great little tips I keep > seeing! Headers, page numbers, yada, this is great, but it's too much > for me to categorize. I reckon it's just time to figure out how to do > them myself instead of being horribly lazy and trying to wait till > someone posts them. Are you guys getting all this information from > "LaTeX: A Document Preparation System" By Leslie Lamport? I'm in the > boonies and so can't go to the book store and leaf through it, but I > remember it as being rather small when I glanced at it before. Is it > small with great information instead of large and full of junk? If you > guys tell me that's the book, I'll order it. I'd like to learn this > the right way. > > Thanks > -J > -- > Jonathan Pennington | A computer without Windows > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | is like a dog without > http://www.coastalgeology.org | bricks tied to its head. -- Ramón Díaz-Uriarte Dept. Zoology and Statistics University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706-1381 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOTE: starting 15-July-2000 new email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) phone: 608-238-8041