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Title: Learning Latex by D. J. Higham, David F. Griffiths ISBN: 0-89871-383-8 Publisher: Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics Pub. Date: June, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great investment for the beginner.
Comment: I wish I had this book when I was learning LaTeX! It is a concise beginner's guide that will get the reader up to speed in a short amount of time. The book does a nice job of briefly introducing more advanced topics, and where to go for more information. This book will get you 80% where you want to go, and I would recommend it as the best book for any new LaTeX user. As a side note, Section 5.6 of the book, "Great Moments in LaTeX History" is absolutely hilarious!
Rating: 5
Summary: The best first LaTeX book
Comment: This amazing little book is the best introduction to LaTeX (version 2e). It is hard to believe how much useful information it contains; it shows you how to incopporate pictures, create indices, tables of contents, math typesetting, etc. The style is wonderful and witty. The left half of each page shows you what LaTeX commands produce the output on the right half. I've been using LaTeX for a while without really reading any book cover to cover, big mistake and many frustrations.
My best recipe for learning LaTeX is: Start with this book, read it cover to cover, practice it, then move to Kopka and Daly's book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent
Comment: This book, geared for the absolute LaTeX beginner, will have anyone up and running in no time. In many ways it is very similar to Gratzer's small book only shorter and without the discussion of AMSLaTeX. Some of the organizational choices made by the authors, however, are quite puzzling. It's not until the middle of the book that they discuss quotation marks and dashes. That material should have been in the second chapter, though in a book this small--80 or so pages which could be profitably studied for two or three days--I suppose that does not matter much. If you've ever wanted to begin the daunting task of mastering LaTeX, this book along with Gratzer's and Diller's will make you impressively adept in no time.
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Title: First Steps in LaTeX by George Gratzer ISBN: 0817641327 Publisher: Birkhauser Boston Pub. Date: 30 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Guide to LaTeX (4th Edition) by Helmut Kopka, Patrick W. Daly ISBN: 0321173856 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 28 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: LaTeX: A Document Preparation System (2nd Edition) by Leslie Lamport ISBN: 0201529831 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 30 June, 1994 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: The LaTeX Companion by Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Alexander Samarin ISBN: 0201541998 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 31 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Math Into LaTeX by George Gratzer ISBN: 0817641319 Publisher: Birkhauser Boston Pub. Date: 22 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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