Christina Thiele

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Books and articles 

The LaTeX Companion:

by Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, and Alexander Samarin (Addison-Wesley, 1994).

Contains many details to assist users. Caveats:

• Chapter 8 is no longer valid -- a revised version is available in both .ps and .pdf formats from CTAN.¹
• As well, the sections on graphics and colour have been superseded by material in The LaTeX Graphics Companion.

The LaTeX Graphics Companion:

Illustrating Documentswith TeX and PostScript, by Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz, and Frank Mittelbach (Addison-Wesley, 1997).

Math into LaTeX:

An Introduction to LaTeX and AMSLaTeX, by George Grätzer (Birkhäuser, Boston and Springer Verlag, New York, 1996).

First Steps in LaTeX:

A Short Course, by George Grätzer (Birkhäuser, Boston and Springer Verlag, New York, summer 1999).

The TeXbook:

by Donald E. Knuth (Addison-Wesley, 1986).

LaTeX:

A Document Preparation System -- User's Guide and Reference Manual, by Leslie Lamport (Addison-Wesley, 1994, 2nd ed).

A Guide to LaTeX2e:

by Helmut Kopka and Patrick W. Daly (Addison-Wesley, 1995, 2nd ed).

Michael Downes:

"Breaking equations," TUGboat 18,3 (Sept 1997): 182-194.

Keith Reckdahl:

"Using EPS graphics in LaTeX2e documents," TUGboat 17,1 (March 1996): 43-53.

Keith Reckdahl:

"Using EPS graphics in LaTeX2e documents, Part 2: Floating figures, boxed figures, captions, and math in figures," TUGboat 17,3 (Sept. 1996): 288-310.

A revised version of the Reckdahl material can be found on CTAN in info/epslatex in both .ps and .pdf formats.

Electronic resources

www.tug.org:

the most complete stepping-stone to the world-wide TeX community, including the CTAN archives, user groups, news, and so on.

comp.text.tex

a general all-purpose newgroup for TeX users. Send queries to info-tex@shsu.edu.

FAQ:

put together by the UK TeX Users Group; available via the TUG web page.

Listserv lists:

there are a great number of specialised Listserv lists.

In addition to the above, here are some others references:

For plain TeX:

 

1. Paul W. Abrahams, with Karl Berry and Kathryn A. Hargreaves, TeXfor the Impatient. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1990. 364pp.
2. Norbert Schwarz, Introduction to TeX. Addison-Wesley, 1989, 1990. 278pp.
3. Victor Eijkhout, TeX by Topic. Addison-Wesley, 1992. 307pp.

For LaTeX(2.09 vintage):

Jane Hahn, LaTeX for Everyone. Mill Valley, Calif.: Personal TeX Inc., 1991. 346pp.

For LaTeX2e:

George Grätzer, The New Standard LaTeX: A Brief Introduction. Personal TeX Inc. 36pp.