On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 12:06:09PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:17:16PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: ... > > (I found this documented, if sparingly, in the LaTeX Companion, by > > Goossens, Mittelbach, and Samarin; ISBN 0-201-54199-8, section 11.9.1.) > > That seems to be _the_ book to get from the comments here. I'll be > checking the local geek bookstore for a copy tomorrow.
Though this is a great book, it won't tell you how to do the simple things. You *really* can't do LaTeX without the real book "LaTeX, A document preparation system" by Lamport. At least that has been my experience in twenty odd years of TeXing. And if you're into very arcane type setting you can't do without "The" ultimate "TeXbook", by Knuth himself, either. The upside is that those books will last several computer lives, as TeX, and LaTeX are very, very stable systems. -- groetjes, carel
