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LATEX: a Document Preparation System : User's Guide and Reference Manual (Addison-Wesley Series on Tools and Techniques for Computer T) (Paperback)

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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Addison Wesley; 2 edition (14 Jul 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0201529831
  • ISBN-13: 978-0201529838
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.5 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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This authoritative user’s guide and reference for the LaTeX computer typesetting system, written by the system’s creator, has been revised to document features available in release LaTeX2e.



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This authoritative user's guide and reference manual for the LATEX computer typesetting system has been revised to document features now available in the new standard software release - LATEX2e. The new edition features additional styles and functions, improved font handling, and enhanced graphics capabilities. Other parts of the book have been revised to reflect user comments and suggestions. Selected sections have been rewritten to explain challenging concepts or functions, and the descriptions of both MakeIndex and BibTEX have been updated. New LATEX users will want to start with this book, and current users, particularly as they upgrade to the LATEX2e software, will be eager to obtain the most up-to-date version of its associated manual.

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  • Revised version of the authoritative user's guide and reference manual for the LATEX computer typesetting system.
  • Features the new standard software release - LATEX2e.
  • Sections rewritten to explain difficult concepts or functions.


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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The only reference I ever needed..., 11 Mar 2002
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Now, admittedly, when I got this book, I already was somewhat familiar with LaTeX, so I do not know whether it is well tailored to be an introduction to LaTeX. However, as a reference, it is unbeaten.

I worked with many books about LaTeX, some with three times as many pages as Leslie's, yet with only half as much information in them. This book has the information you need to write a scientific LaTeX document, be it a report, an article, or a thesis. And it has only the information that you need, no unnecessary ballast.

To give an example, this book is the only one I ever found that actually exactly explained how to implement a picture/chart/diagram into a LaTeX document. Now that I have understood the idea, I actually find it dead easy. None of the other author's actually seemed to have grasped the concept, but rather just messed around until the picture was magically in there, and his superior knowledge of this matter may, of course purely accidentally, have something to do with the fact that Leslie wrote that software...

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A great reference book, 8 Mar 2000
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I have learned LaTeX from Lamport's book and every time I need some basic information on LaTeX commands, I find it there. The book is perhaps not written in the very pedagogical way for total beginners, however, LaTeX was never really meant to be used by such people. Those of you, which are not totally novice in using computers, will find book rather easy to read if you know anything about Latex or not.

I must confess to the critics above that I never suceeded to undestand what the fragile command is, but after more than a year of active LaTeXing I never actually needed that information (knock knock on the wood). On the other hand, jokes might be dull, but this is a matter of taste and the book isn't meant to make you smile anyway.

To summary, if you are not totaly novice in using computers, you can easily use this book to learn LaTeX and later as a primary reference book.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Very good book for all level users!, 22 Sep 1998
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As a person fairly new to TeX, I found this book most helpful. I made a surprising discovery this summer while working with professional scientists who write almost everything in LaTex: many of them used this book, too! It, along with it's companions, are THE reference for many of these scientists. The one shortcoming of this, as well as every LaTeX guide I have seen, is that it doesn't explain how to include external postscript graphics at all, something we all need to do, it seems.
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