Customer Review: The book is very helpful for graduate students who are first learning LaTeX for publishing their dissertations or for submitting articles for publication. It is especially helpful for users of LaTeX that are using pre-made style guides. This book is not for the advanced LaTeX user who is trying to... more info
Customer Review: The book does a great job of explaining LaTeX. It is clear and easy to follow. There are some fine points that need to be explained further but for a beginning LaTeX book it does a very great job.
Customer Review: Though less complete, this book is a gentler introduction to latex than the companion book. It covers less terrain but in a form that's easier to assimilate. So if you get only one book get the Compainon book. Otherwise consider this book a better primer on the latex typesetting system.
Customer Review: This book together with "The LaTex Companion" represents the state of the art of any manuals for LaTeX. The book is well written and it is comprehensible even to beginners . It shows all the major feature of the most common graphics packages. The most important thing is the all the packages are free... more info
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Customer Review: 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... more info
Customer Review: After having collected many books on LaTeX i consider this set the best reference set of books on LaTeX. If one is serious about using LaTeX this is the initial must have set of LaTeX books
Customer Review: The book arrived very soon after I ordered it and in excellent condition. It was an updated version of the guide I'd been using for years with success in the preparation of mathematical articles. I recommend the book highly.
Customer Review: I just wanted to point out that this book is obsolete. The new fourth edition title has changed to "More Math into LATEX". Buy that instead...