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Complete and/or authoritative reference material for the LaTeX typesetting system.

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• Formatting Information: An Introduction to Typesetting with LaTeX

  http://latex.silmaril.ie/formattinginformation/
  Covers many topics from installation of LaTeX, editors, how to create a document, and how to control styles, to writing macros.

• Getting Started with LaTeX

  http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/LaTeXPrimer/
  A short primer on LaTeX.

• Hypertext Help with LaTeX

  http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/latex/
  Provide reference information for those with some familiarity with LaTeX.

• LaTeX Help

  http://www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_toc.html
  On-line manual at Emory University.

• LaTeX2e Font Selection

  http://mirror.jmu.edu/pub/CTAN/macros/latex/doc/fntguide.pdf
  Describes the new font selection features of LaTeX2e. Aimed at those writing font-loading packages similar to times or latexsym.

• LaTeX2e for Authors

  http://ctan.mackichan.com/macros/latex/doc/usrguide.pdf
  Describes how to take advantage of the new features in LaTeX2e, and also how to process documents from older versions.

• Standard Document Classes for LaTeX version 2e

  http://tex.loria.fr/ctan-doc/macros/latex/base/classes.pdf
  Annotated code from the standard document classes. Useful for those who wish customize pre-defined commands and environments.

• The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List

  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/
  Organized list of over 2500 symbols commonly available to LaTeX users (either by default or by including special packages). Available in ps and pdf formats.

• The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e

  http://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/
  LaTeX2e in 139 minutes by Tobias Oetiker. A short course on LaTeX.

• Wikibooks: LaTeX

  http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX
  A collaboratively written guide to the LaTeX markup language.

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