Alexandre asked: >In other words, how do all you people come up with this stuff? Where does one >learn tex and latex and all this miscellaneous stuff? What books, docs, or >other reference materials would the gurus out there counsel, for somebody who >would like to get on his own two feet on this and save everybody a lot of >time? Is the one by Lamport actually useful for anything anymore, given how >old it is?
I've a small list of free references on typography and TeX / Latex which I put together as the beginning of a re-design of my personal web pages: http://members.aol.com/willadams/books-free-type.html www.tug.org has some more references, esp. a link to the books list in the TeX FAQ (which has a run-down on relative merits of different texts if memory serves). William