Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AP> I always find good answers to LaTeX questions on comp.text.tex.
The other extremely useful thing to do is install the tetex-doc package, and then browse through /usr/share/doc/texmf (or, equivalently, /usr/share/texmf/doc). Many (most?) of the LaTeX extension packages have documentation hidden here, and there's even a reasonable introduction to LaTeX buried there (latex/general/lshort.dvi). If you already know what you're looking for, you can use texdoc(1), which is essentially a combination of find and xdvi; 'texdoc lshort' will let you view the aforementioned document. (So if you have a package and wants to know how it works, 'texdoc $PACKAGENAME' will often, though not always, win.) If you're into buying books, Leslie Lamport's book (LaTeX: A Document Processing System) is a reasonable introduction. IMHO, The LaTeX Companion isn't terribly useful (it's mostly a rehashing of the already-available online documentation). However, I've found A Guide to LaTeX (can't remember authors) to be a useful reference, and if you have some clue already it's probably a good first book to buy. (And, if you consider yourself a TeXpert, printing a copy of the LaTeX source is immensely useful; in its absence, looking at `kpsewhich latex.ltx` can be somewhat informative as well. \expandafter is your friend. :-) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
