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This is a popular free beginner's manual (about 100 pages) by Tobias Oetiker, based on material originally written by Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna, and Elisabeth Schlegl. It is available in pdf format as well as in other formats and in various languages.
This is the basic manual by Leslie Lamport, creator of LaTeX. The second edition was published by Addison-Wesley in 1994.
Published by Wiley in 1999, this book by Antoni Diller is a primer based on examples, some of which are available online. A handy glossary lists the LaTeX commands alphabetically with brief explanations.
The third edition of this book by
George Grätzer was
published by Birkhäuser
in 2000. The author's target audience is "the mathematician,
engineer, scientist, or technical typist who wants to write and
typeset articles containing mathematical formulas but does not
want to spend much time learning how to do it." The book has
full coverage of the amsmath package.
For experienced LaTeX users, this book by Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, and Alexander Samarin, published in 1994 by Addison-Wesley, is essential reading if you want to go beyond the basics and do customization, use add-on packages, use non-standard fonts, and so forth. If you think there ought to be an easy way to do something in LaTeX, and you can't find it in Lamport's manual, look here next.
Two sequels have appeared devoted to specialized topics: The LaTeX Graphics Companion: Illustrating Documents with TeX and PostScript, by Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz, and Frank Mittelbach, was published by Addison-Wesley in 1997; and The LaTeX Web Companion: Integrating TeX, HTML, and XML, by Michel Goossens and Sebastian Rahtz with Eitan Gurari, Ross Moore and Robert Sutor, was published by Addison-Wesley in 1999.
This book by Helmut Kopka and Patrick W. Daly has many useful examples. It was published by Addison-Wesley in 1999.
By Donald E. Knuth, grand wizard and creator of TeX, this work is the holy book of the TeX world, reprinted numerous times since its first printing in 1984. Look here for definitive information about TeX, the program that underlies LaTeX.
The Math 696 course
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