• What is it?
• Getting started: guides, tutorials and FAQs
• Software and documentation
• Books in the University of Melbourne library
• LaTeX training and support at the University of Melbourne
• More links: Google's LaTeX directory
  
• More help: Post a message to the comp.text.tex news group

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What is LaTeX?

"LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system, with features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation."
From LaTeX Project Homepage http://www.latex-project.org/

Getting started

Getting started with TeX and LaTeX
http://tug.org/begin.html
Help from the TeX Users Group. Includes an overview, installation tips and publisher-provided style packages for authors.

LaTeX Primer from the IEEE Student Branch, University of Melbourne
http://unimelb.ieeevic.org/tech/latex.phtml

TeX frequently asked questions (hosted by Maths and Stats)
http://www.it.ms.unimelb.edu.au/tex/help/faq/uktug-faq/index.html

Beginning LaTeX (Tutorial at Cornell)
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Misc/LaTeX-Tutorial/LaTeX-Home.html

Getting started with LaTeX (by DR Wilkins, Trinity College, Dublin)
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/LaTeXPrimer/

LaTeX: from quick and dirty to style and finesse (by Tony Roberts, Univ of Southern Qld)
http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/robertsa/LaTeX/

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Software and documentation

CTAN: the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
http://www.ctan.org/
Search and browse for TeX solutions, including style files and explanatory documents

TeX Catalogue Online
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/catalogue.html
Lists over 1200 TeX, LaTeX, and related packages and tools

TeX Users Group Homepage
http://tug.org/
Includes links to mailing lists, software, FAQs and tips on getting started.

To install TeX from CD, borrow the TeX Live 2003 disk from the Engineering library. Ask at the loans desk for the disk that accompanies this book: Guide to LATEX / Helmut Kopka, Patrick W. Daly, Boston : Addison-Wesley, c2004, UniM Engin 686.22544536 KOPK

LaTeX for Chemists
http://www.2k-software.de/ingo/ochem.html

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Books in the University of Melbourne library

LATEX: a document preparation system / Leslie Lamport
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1986.
UniM Engin 686.22544 LAMP
UniM Physics REF 686.22544 LAMP

LATEX : a document preparation system : user's guide and reference manual / Leslie Lamport
2nd edition, Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1994.
UniM EarthSci 682.225444536 LATE
UniM Maths 686.22544 L198

The LaTeX companion / Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Alexander Samarin.
Reading, Mass. : Addison, c1994.
UniM Engin 686.22544536 GOOS
UniM EarthSci 686.22544536 GOOS
UniM Maths 686.22544 G644

The LaTeX graphics companion : illustrating documents with TeX and PostScript / Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz, Frank Mittelbach.
Reading, Ma. : Addison-Wesley, 1997.
UniM Engin 686.22544536 GOOS

The LaTeX Web companion : integrating TeX, HTML, and XML / Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz ; with Eitan M. Gurari, Ross Moore, and Robert S. Sutor.
Reading, Mass. : Addison Wesley Longman, 1999.
UniM Engin 005.72 GOOS

Guide to LATEX / Helmut Kopka, Patrick W. Daly
Boston : Addison-Wesley, c2004
UniM Engin 686.22544536 KOPK
Comes with an installation CD for TeX Live 2003. Ask at the loans desk for the disk.

LATEX line by line : tips and techniques for document processing / Antoni Diller.
Chichester : J. Wiley & Sons, 1999.
UniM Engin 686.22544536 DILL

Learning LATEX / David F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham.
Philadelphia : SIAM, c1997.
UniM Maths 686.22544536 GRIF

TeX unbound : LaTeX & TeX strategies for fonts, graphics, & more / Alan Hoenig.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1998.
UniM Maths 686.22544536 HOEN

A guide to LATEX : document preparation for beginners and advanced users / Helmut Kopka, Patrick W. Daly.
Harlow : Addison-Wesley, 1999
UniM Engin 686.22544 KOPK

First steps in LaTeX / George Gratzer.
Boston : Birkhauser/Springer, c1999.
UniM Physics reserve 686.225445369 GRAT

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LaTeX training and support at University of Melbourne

Previous workshops and course notes:

LaTeX overview
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~gavinb/download.php?file=latex_overview.pdf
Presented by Gavin Baker (PhD student in Computer Science and Software Engineering) on November 7, 2002 to introduce the features and strengths of LaTeX. The slides were produced in LaTeX with the Prosper package. More information here on Gavin's web site.

Introduction to LaTeX
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~gavinb/download.php?file=latex_intro.pdf

Gavin Baker and Glenn Moloney presented introductory LaTeX classes as part of the School of Graduate Studies Summer Program for 2003. See their individual web pages for additional training materials.

Intermediate LaTeX
Les Kitchen (CS&SE) presented intermediate LaTeX classes as part of the School of Graduate Studies Summer Program for 2003. Slides and examples are here (zipped archives).

More links at UMelb

LaTeX Primer from the IEEE Student Branch
http://unimelb.ieeevic.org/tech/latex.phtml

The IEEE Student Branch also run LaTeX workshops periodically. Keep your eye on their coming events page.

TeX and LaTeX in EEEng (Electrical & Electronic Engineering)
http://munagin.ee.mu.OZ.AU/e-info/tex/latex.html

SimpleThesis LaTeX Package (Postgraduate Physics Students Society)
http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/pgss/thesis_resources.html

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