Some Online TeX and LaTeX Resources
- TUG's Getting Started with TeX,
LaTeX, and Friends.
- Links to lots of resources for getting started learning and
using Tex, LaTeX, and, well, Friends!
- TUG's TeX and
LaTeX Documentation.
- Formatting Information: A Beginner's Guide to LaTeX,
by Peter Flynn, Silmaril Associates
- A good, detailed,
introductory guide covering the use of TeX and LaTeX on Macs, Windows,
and Unix/Linux systems. Available in HTML and PDF.
- CTAN—the Comprehensive TeX
Archive Network
- CTAN maintains a comprehensive archive of TeX and LaTeX packages,
formats, fonts, document classes, documentation, and other materials,
including complete TeX systems.
- We maintain our own local CTAN mirror, as well.
- The UK-TUG
FAQ
- Answers many frequently asked questions about TeX and LaTeX. A
good first place to check if you're having problems.
- Detexify
LaTeX Handwritten Symbol Recognition
- Cool site that lets you sketch a symbol using your mouse, then
suggests LaTeX symbols that are close to what you've drawn. Often
a good way to figure out what command to use for a particular
symbol.
- Comprehensive
LaTeX Symbol List
- A document showing a huge array of symbols, the commands that
produce them, and information about the packages that provide
those commands. (Available on many TeX systems as
symbols-a4.pdf or symbols-letter.pdf.
Try running texdoc symbols for a viewable version or
texdoc symbols-letter for a printable version.)
- LaTeX Search
- Allows you to search for equations in Springer journals and
gives you the LaTeX code to create those equations. Should be
useful both for referencing work in Springer journals and for
getting sample code for equations that are similar to what you're
trying to write.
comp.text.tex
comp.text.tex is the official Usenet newsgroup for
discussing TeX and LaTeX questions. Chances are that any problems
you're having, someone else has already had, asked about on
ctt, and gotten an answer. You can search
the newsgroup with Google.
- Google
- Google is probably your best bet for finding information outside
comp.text.tex, as well.
- TUG, the TeX Users Group
- TUG is the main international TeX User Group. TUG runs annual
conferences, maintains and distributes the TeX Live CD-ROM, and supports the
work of the LaTeX Project
Team.
- The PracTeX
Journal
- The PracTeX Journal is an online journal on TeX and
LaTeX issues that welcomes contributions from readers. A typical
issue will have articles ranging from answering basic questions to
in-depth discussions about how some complex problem was solved.
- Using
Imported Graphics in LaTeX and pdfLaTeX (PDF)
- Keith Reckdahl explains how to include graphics using the
standard TeX->DVI->PostScript and the newer PDFTeX->PDF approaches
to TeX compilation. He also talks about the different graphics
formats available and their advantages and disadvantages, explains
how to include multiple images in a single figure, and comments on
some of the software applications available for generating and
manipulating images.
- Donald
E. Knuth's Home Page
- Knuth is the author of TeX, and a renowned computer scientist.
He's mostly offline, but does maintain a webpage with some information
about his work, past, present, and future.
- My take on TeX and LaTeX books