LaTeX documentation

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LaTeX documentation
You are here: LaTeX project site Documentation This page contains references to documentation that is available on the net. Most of these are in English but there is a section on non-English documentation. They are by both the LaTeX team and other contributors. Also, there's a whole page dedicated to books on LaTeX and related topics. If you know about a list of TeX and related documentation not listed here, please contact webmaster@latex-project.org.

Documentation distributed with LaTeX

LaTeX is described in LaTeX2e for authors which is available as a LaTeX document or as a PDF document. More advanced documentation about LaTeX, which is available via the net includes: Conguration options for LaTeX2e LaTeX2e for class and package writers Cyrillic languages support in LaTeX LaTeX2e font selection The LaTeX3 project Modifying LaTeX

Contributed documentation
There's a lot of documentation out there that was not written by the LaTeX team themselves. We've started a list pointing to some of it. LaTeX: an introduction This is a one-page high-level overview of LaTeX, by Mike Unwalla. It was recently published in 'Communicator', Spring 2006. The (Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e This document by Tobias Oetiker et al is a good beginner's tutorial. There are a number of translations available. Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX2e This article by Keith Reckdahl shows you how to do (almost) anything with graphics: side-by-side, rotated, etc. Getting to grips with Latex
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A collection of tutorials meant to get people going with LaTeX, by Andrew Roberts. LaTeX: Structured documents for TeX (unocial LaTeX reference manual) From the preface: This document is an unocial reference manual for LaTeX, a document preparation system, version as of May 2012. It is intended to cover LaTeX2e, which has been the standard version of LaTeX for many years. The LaTeX wiki book From Wikibooks, this open-content textbook is intended to serve new users who wish to learn as well as old hands who need a quick reference. A Visual LaTeX FAQ Having trouble nding the answer to a LaTeX question? The Visual LaTeX FAQ is an innovative new search interface that presents over a hundred typeset samples of frequently requested document formatting. Simply click on a hyperlinked piece of text and the Visual LaTeX FAQ will send your Web browser to the appropriate page in the UK TeX FAQ. By Scott Pakin. There are a couple of places you can search for more information: Meta-FAQ This is provided by the TeX Users Group. UK TeX Users Group's FAQ The Visual LaTeX FAQ by Scott Pakin is a PDF document presenting examples of customized LaTeX formatting and formatting problems, hyperlinked to appropriate pages in the UK TUG FAQ. Open Directory Project An excellent place to start surng the Web for information about TeX and LaTeX. TeXdoc Online - TeX and LaTeX Documentation Dedicated server for querying and browsing manuals, guides and package documentation. comp.text.tex If you can't nd what you need in any of these, try a search of past postings to the Usenet news group comp.text.tex. One place where you can do that is Google. If you are still puzzled, try posting to comp.text.tex. It's a friendly group.

Non-english documentation
There is a lot of documentation in languages other than English. Lists of books and other resources in other languages are maintained by TeX user groups in the respective countries. The following are known to us: German
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