Allan Streib writes: > Robert Thorpe writes: > >> I've tried to learn it. I found it difficult to learn and I found >> the resources on the internet poor. Almost all of them seem to assume >> that the user has read one of the books on the subject already. > > I learned the basics from _Learning LaTeX_ by Griffiths and Higham. > > http://www.amazon.com/Learning-LaTeX-David-F-Griffiths/dp/0898713838 > > It's a small book, but gives you enough to get going on the basics. It is > written for the beginner and presents just the essentials. You can then > learn more from other resources as your needs/desires dictate. > I'm re-writing a book that I published over ten years ago, and in the intervening period I've lost the sources, so I'm essentially starting from scratch again. I started doing it in org-mode, and have since converted it to latex, and these sites have helped me the most - http://www.sharelatex.com/learn/Main_Page http://texblog.org/ http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX The first starts with building a basic document and has lots of examples. Then it shows you how to change things and do different things with the latex source. The last one is similar, and gives you more of the theory behind it all. The texblog poses problems and gives you solutions. It helps if you have an idea of what you achieve, and then you can gradually build your document up. Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk my git repo = https://bitbucket.org/boudiccas/dots TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk Debian testing, Fluxbox 1.3.5, emacs 24.3.91.1