On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 09:08:33AM -0800, Lighthouse Keeper in the
Desert Sun wrote:
Hello Connie,
> What references exist for LaTeX? I have the TeX "gentle introduction" but
> I tried doing it, and it didn't work. (I used the tags they suggested,
> and latex foo.tex gave me about 30 errors.)
\LaTeX{} and \TeX{} are (very?) different. \TeX{} of course was
written by Dr. Knuth, as a setting language for his masterpiece, The
Art of Computer Programming.
So what's \LaTeX{}? \LaTeX{} is a set of various macros, and other
things to make writing \TeX{} documents easier, specifically \LaTeX{}
is used to make articles and books, as well as a few other things.
Things like TeXinfo are other uses of \TeX{} which in this case is
used to write documentation.
> I looked at the man pages and
> the info pages, and so far, the only useful info is buried in the 'info'
> pages. I'm trying to learn it so I can use it for papers for a class I'm
> in (plain old pico isn't quite good enough for something I have to turn in
> for a grade...)
Unfortunately reading the info and man pages to learn \LaTeX{} is like
trying to read them to learn C. The are very terse and technical.
Like one of the other messages said www.tug.org has lots of useful
introductory documents. One of the guy's at my LUG has an
introduction to Word Processing on his website [www.msu.edu/~pfaffben/
(it's near the bottom)] which he discusses various alternatives to
word processing. It's not a good tutorial, but nice reading anyways.
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\LaTeX{} is a cool!!
\end{document}
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