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  • Paperback: 568 pages
  • Publisher: Springer; 1st ed 1999. Corr. 2nd printing edition (1 Jan 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0387987088
  • ISBN-13: 978-0387987088
  • Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 17.9 x 2.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This comprehensive guide to using LaTeX is directed at Linux and UNIX users but is also the best how-to book on the use to LaTeX to prepare articles, books and theses. Unlike other LaTeX books it is especially useful for someone coming to LaTeX for the first time.
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4.0 out of 5 stars This ugly book is not just for users of Linux ..., 30 Jul 1999
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The book is titled "LaTeX for Linux," but all users of the great LaTeX typesetting program will appreciate it. Although it's "Linux-specific" regarding viewing the output and the use of ghostview, etc., it's really better as an excellent introduction to LaTeX. And best of all, it's the first book that I've seen that stresses LaTeX for non-mathematical appications. (Not all of us who use LaTeX or TeX need to know how to use the overbar character.)

So why didn't I give the program a perfect "5"? Well, despite the fact that you can learn lots of information from it, the typesetting of this book is ugly and depressing. If a person were to judge TeX and LaTeX on the basis of this book alone, he or she would just say, "Ugh. I don't want to take the time to learn this program since the results are so horrible." While Lamport's book is brain dead for learning how to use LaTeX but beautifully typeset, this book is the exact opposite--substantively excellent but hideous to look at.

I hope this book will cause the many folks discovering that teTeX is a free part of the standard Linux distribution to learn LaTeX. But they shouldn't try to pattern their results on the look of this book.

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