[texhax] LaTeX training?

[William Adams]

On Feb 28, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Wingert, Stephanie B wrote:

> Are you aware of any available training on using LaTeX software? Our company is being directed by our customer to use it, but we understand there is quite the learning curve, so we were hoping to find some training.

The TeX User's Group is the best support, and at the various meetings which it hosts will often offer training workshops:

www.tug.org

There's also an article on it:

http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb26-1/ad3.pdf

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a group local to you.

There are a number of consultants, some of whom will offer training:

http://www.tug.org/consultants.html

The best things to do are to start w/ the available documentation:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf

and the printed _LaTeX Companion, 2nd Edition_:

http://www.awprofessional.com/titles/0201362996

Some extracts of that are available here:

http://www.latex-project.org/guides/books.html

as well as various other books.

lshort will cover the basics, and the Companion is an invaluable reference / resource, the balance will depend on the specifics of what you need.

If you need to handle math, then you'll definitely want:

Math Into LaTeX:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/mil/mil.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Math-Into-LaTeX-George-Grätzer/dp/0817641319

and the Comprehensive Symbols List:

http://mirror.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-letter.pdf

If you wanted a brief introductory workshop and some help w/ macros, or had some specific needs related to printing, I'm just up in Pennsylvania and would be glad to drive down.

William

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