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I am a LaTeX fan, but not a hacker. It means that I can use LaTeX to create beautiful documents, but don't know how to make the packages and templates. LaTeX is a "subperfect" tool to create those documents with logical structures. There are some tips.

Books

  • The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX2e (LATEX2e in 141 minutes)
    I think that it is the most famous book on LaTeX. It is interesting that each edition of this book has different "minutes", i.e., the 2008 edition is "141" minutes, the 2002 edition is "112" minutes, and the 2001 edition is "95" minutes .... Here is the "shortest" edition I can find, which is only "85" minutes. Anyway, no matter how much time it lists on the title, it will definitely not take you more than one afternoon to enter the world of LaTeX!
  • Math into LaTeX
    Tell you how to create the perfect mathematics equations in your documents?
  • TeX Reference Card
    This document contains brief descriptions of the commends in TeX/LaTeX
  • An Example LATEX Document
    The author is very famous on Internet in China. His article "Completely Work with Linux" has great influence on many people, at least, on me.
  • Websites

  • CTAN (The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network)
    No one may not know this website unless one does not use LaTeX!
  • TUG (The TeX Users Group)
    TUG was founded in 1980 for educational and scientific purposes, to provide an organization for those who have an interest in typography and font design, and are users of the TeX typesetting system invented by Donald Knuth.
  • Google
  • These are enough!
  • If You Know Chinese...

  • CTEX
    TUG中国站点,中国最著名的TeX/LaTeX网站!
  • 一份不太简短的LaTeX2e介绍(又名112分钟学会LaTeX)
    "The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX2e" 中文版
  • 王垠的LaTeX主页
    为什么要追求文章的美感?摘抄王垠的一段话:
    “知之者不如好之者,好之者不如乐之者。” 科学家都知道艺术和美感给他们带来了什么。看到均称的排版,优雅的字体,漂亮的公式,看到 ∑ 和 ∽ 的曲线相互辉映,他的潜意识感觉到世界的和谐,上帝的召唤。他就可能想到王羲之在挥笔疾书,就想到太极云手,想到泰格伍兹打了一个老鹰球,想到舒马赫冲过最后一个弯道,路旁漂亮女孩的头发在飘扬,一个急刹车差点撞上一只过路的穿着西服的兔子,他手里举着一面格子旗,上面写着“道可道,非常道”。一个千年难题的答案,不知不觉就送到你面前了。整个过程有如行云流水,一气呵成……啧啧(有点吹牛了。哈哈!)有人说科学的目的就是为了美,也许就是这个意思吧。

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