This short, well-written book covers the material essential for learning LATEX without any unnecessary detail. It discusses incisive examples that teach LATEX in a powerful yet abbreviated fashion, including the following crucial features: numerous examples of widely used mathematical expressions; complete documents illustrating the creation of articles, reports, and overhead projector slides; troubleshooting tips to help you pinpoint an error; details of how to set up a bibliography and an index; information about LATEX resources available on the Internet. LATEX has become an extremely popular typesetting system and is widely used throughout the sciences. Students may use it to typeset reports and theses (particularly graduate students in any mathematics or computer science discipline).The authors cover LATEX 2e, the latest standard version at the time of publication. An appendix discusses the differences between 2e and the older version, 2.09.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Good for LaTex starters:
Learning LaTex is a short, readable book for those just beginning their relationship with this document preparation system. There are a number of graduate students and instructors in my mathematics department who are just now trying to learn to use LaTex, and I donated this book to the department's library for their use after I skimmed it. I think it will be a definite improvement over the department's current approach to introducing students to LaTex.
Most painless and quickest way to learn LaTex that I know of ...:
Can't say it enough - I wish I had this book when I was learning LaTeX. Learning LaTeX from various web sources for the first time, I found that it could be: (1) inconvenient; (2) time-consuming; and (3) information can be very scatter. I often ended up spending more time searching for a particular command/effect that I don't know the name of and tried to make it work. With this book, everything is in one place and just a quick lookup, I am done. I would also recommend Goossens's books as a reference... more info
Um bom livro introdutório:
Um bom livro pra quem não conhece nada sobre LaTeX e quer dar os primeiros passos.
Great book:
If you want to learn LATEX buy this book. I learned LATEX in 8 hours from reading this book. It is short and to the point.
