Learning LaTeX | 
 enlarge | Authors: David F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham
Publisher: SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Category: Book
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 278038
Media: Paperback
Pages: 94
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Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7 x 0.2
ISBN: 0898713838
Dewey Decimal Number: 686.22544536
EAN: 9780898713831
ASIN: 0898713838
Publication Date: December 1, 1997
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Product Description
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.
Book Description
This concise book discusses examples that teach LATEX in a powerful yet abbreviated fashion, including such features as: examples of widely used mathematical expressions; documents illustrating the creation of articles, reports, and overhead projector slides; troubleshooting tips to help pinpoint errors and how to set up a bibliography and index.
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 Most painless and quickest way to learn LaTex that I know of ... November 7, 2008
Pat Choi (L.A., CA United States)
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 after you have learned the basic essentials from this book. Goossen's books can be a bit overwhelming for beginners.
In short, this book is the most painless and quickest way to learn LaTex that I know of. A few hours spent here and you should be ready to get started. If you don't use a lot of fancy typesetting features, this book would probably cover 80-90% of the commands you would need.
 Um bom livro introdutorio April 5, 2008
Helio B. Pereira (Roraima, Brasil)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Um bom livro pra quem nao conhece nada sobre LaTeX e quer dar os primeiros passos.
Great book October 1, 2007
book reader
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
A brief introduction to Latex November 21, 2006
Fco Javier Andrey Andres (Spain)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
The text have several examples and it is very clear. It is a good book to begin to learn latex but no more. When one get more experience writing latex, the book has only de basic commandas and a bit more. Search over the internet for more material is a good advise.
One of the best Latex resources December 21, 2005
Subhradyuti Sarkar (San Diego, California United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have tried reading a lot of online articles about learning Latex, and none of them was very helpful. After reading this book for 1 hour, I started creating my own document (which had a pressing deadline). Do buy this book if you are beginner in Latex: the treatment is lucid, helpful and easy-to-read. 95% needs of 90% Latex users will be served by the commands given in this small 60 page book. If you have more advanced needs, this book gives excellent referencs to other, more reference-like Latex books. Oh, and if you are a Windows user, I'd strongly recomment (MikTeX + TeXnicCenter) as your Latex software.
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