From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 29 16:10:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net (emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7408B37BAB1 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:10:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bduk@earthlink.net) Received: from earthlink.net (sdn-ar-005orportP245.dialsprint.net [63.178.69.7]) by emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA06069; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:10:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bduk@localhost) by earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA00613; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:02:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bduk) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:02:18 -0800 (PST) Posted-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:02:18 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003291902.LAA00613@earthlink.net> From: Derrick Baumer To: ben@scientia.demon.co.uk Cc: brett@peloton.runet.edu, tracker@worldy.com, questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <20000329171813.A50487@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> (message from Ben Smithurst on Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:18:13 +0100) Subject: Re: looking for a report program Reply-To: bduk@earthlink.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: Ben Smithurst > > Brett Taylor wrote: > > > You mentioned it (and I snipped it) - TeX. You can do almost anything in > > LaTeX - if you don't want to have to learn all the complexity of LaTeX > > (and if you know HTML it won't be that big a stretch), you can try LyX > > which is a WYSIWYW (what you see is what you want) frontend to LaTeX. I > > personally just use vi, but give it a shot. > > Do you know of any good tutorial/introduction type sites about LaTeX? I > seem to be able to do what I want to do, but I'd like to learn what else > I can do, whether I'm doing things the "right" way, etc.. > > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D I strongly recommend "A Guide to LaTeX2e - Document Preparation for Beginners and Advanced Users" by Helmut Kopka and Patrick W. Daly. It's not an online document, but it's a very good learning tool and reference resource. ISBN 0-201-42777-X. -- Derrick Baumer - Black Duck Software To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message