370 References

LaTeX manuals online

0. Tobias Oetiker, Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna, Elisabeth Schlegl, The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e. Probably the standard introduction to LaTeX.
1. Beamer presentation system: The beamer class User Guide for version 3.26. Explains how to use the Beamer system. The different goal -- constructing presentations -- causes some differences from the standard Latex.
2. Bill Meeks, A Short Latex Tutorial for homeworks.

B. The next level
- 3. User's Guide for the amsmath Package. by American Mathematical Society. This is the documentation for the amsmath package. 80 pages and useful. Lots of stuff for complicated equations, arrays, etc.
- 4. George Grätzer, Math Into LaTeX. 400 pages in a friendly systematic manner. Some discussion of the AMS LaTeX packages.
- The LaTeX FAQ, maintained by the UK TeX Users Group.

Tex manuals

Tex is the original program that is a basis underlying Latex.

Michael Doob, A Gentle Introduction to TeX. Similar in aim to TeX for the Impatient.

Paul W. Abrahams, Kathryn A. Hargreaves, and Karl Berry, TeX for the Impatient. 400 pages and generally too deep for a begginner. This is an introduction to TeX (the program, and Knuth's "plain" macros).

Books (Not a web source)

Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens, Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, Chris Rowley, The LaTeX Companion (second edition),Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004. This has a lot of information about LaTeX class and style packages. Some parts of it are available online at the LaTeX Project website. More or less the same authors have also published The LaTeX Web Companion and The LaTeX Graphics Companion.

Leslie Lamport, LaTeX: A Document Preparation System (second edition), Addison-Wesley, 1994.

Donald E. Knuth, The TeXbook, Addison-Wesley, 1986. This is ancient, the roots of latex. If you need to know a lot about the internals of TeX, this is where to look.

Bibiography tool (Bibitex)

Oren Patashnik, BibTeXing. This is the original documentation for BibTeX, but the section in The LaTeX Companion might be a better guide (and has information about extensions to the original package. There are also some new tools that also generate bibliographies, such as biblatex and amsrefs.

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