Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:02:18 -0800 (PST) From: Derrick Baumer <bduk@earthlink.net> To: ben@scientia.demon.co.uk Cc: brett@peloton.runet.edu, tracker@worldy.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for a report program Message-ID: <200003291902.LAA00613@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <20000329171813.A50487@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> (message from Ben Smithurst on Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:18:13 %2B0100)
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> From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
>
> 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.
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Derrick Baumer - Black Duck Software
<bduk@earthlink.net>
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