References

This document and all associated files may be found at

http://www.math.missouri.edu/~rjudd/textalk/.

You are welcome to use them in any way you see fit.

There are many good books available to help with using TEX and L^ATEX . You will definitely need at least one.

Books

TEX

• The TEX book by Donald Knuth (Addison-Wesley, 1984, ISBN 0-201-13447-0, paperback ISBN 0-201-13448-9)

• TEX for the Impatient by Paul W. Abrahams, Karl Berry and Kathryn A. Hargreaves (Addison-Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0-201-51375-7)

• A Beginner's Book of TEX by Raymond Seroul and Silvio Levy, (Springer Verlag, 1992, ISBN 0-387-97562-4)

• Making TEX work by Norman Walsh (O'Reilly and Associates, 1994, ISBN 1-56592-051-1) Out of print?

L^ATEX

• L^ATEX : A Document Preparation System, Second Edition, by Leslie Lamport, ISBN 0-201-52983-1, published jointly by the American Mathematical Society and Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1985.

• The L^ATEX Companion, by Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin, ISBN 0-201-54199-8, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1994.

• A Guide to L^ATEX, by Helmut Kopka and Patrick Daly, Addison-Wesley, 1992.

• The L^ATEX Graphics Companion: Illustrating documents with TEX and PostScript by Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz and Frank Mittelbach (Addison-Wesley, 1997, ISBN 0-201-85469-4)

• The L^ATEX Web Companion: Integrating TEX , HTML and XML by Michel Goossens and Sebastian Rahtz (Addison-Wesley, 1999, ISBN 0-201-43311-7)

Most folks agree that the two best books about L^ATEX are the first two L^ATEX books above. The Lamport book is the official documentation for L^ATEX . The L^ATEX Companion book is also invaluable. It gives lots of details about L^ATEX packages and tools. I recommend both books to any serious L^ATEX user.

Documentation on the web

The main site on the web for everything TEX related is the TEX Users Group (TUG) at http://www.tug.org and the Comprehensive TEX Archive Network (CTAN) at

ftp://ctan.tug.org/pub/tex-archive/

I recommend you look at the index.html file the first time you go there, and if it is working you can search the site at

http://tug.ctan.org/CTANfind.html

The nearest official CTAN mirror is at Washington University, St. Louis:

http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/packages/TeX/

I'm going to refer to this as CTAN-root in the following. There is supposed to be a mirror at MU, but last time I looked it was empty.

• FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html
• A Gentle Introduction to TEX, by Michael Doob, CTAN-root/info/gentle/
• The not so short introduction to L^ATEX by Tobias Oetiker, CTAN-root/info/lshort/english/
• Simplified Introduction to L^ATEX by Harvey Greenberg, CTAN-root/info/simplified-latex/latex.ps

Online Documentation

If your TEX distribution is teTeX, then you probably have the documentation with it. This is very extensive and can be accessed using a web browser. You first need to find it in your filesystem. It is at

/teTeX-Root/doc/index.html

on my system this is /usr/share/texmf/doc/index.html. You can find it by typing tex at the shell prompt, and then at TEX 's ** prompt type \input null. This will list a file

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/misc/null.tex)

and the root of the TEX tree is the directory texmf (which I'd guess stands for ``TEX-'').