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Summary: Guide to LaTeX 4th edition
Comment: The book does a great job of explaining LaTeX. It is clear and easy to follow. There are some fine points that need to be explained further but for a beginning LaTeX book it does a very great job.
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Summary: Excelente Livro
Comment: Excelente livro para iniciantes e para quem quer se aprofundar mais sobre LaTeX, que vai do básico ao avançado, detalhando cada comando minuciosmante. Recomendo.
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Summary: this is the one to get
Comment: Sure, there are free LaTeX manuals available on the net. But I got frustrated with those, and felt like investing some money in learning how to use it. This book fit the bill to a T.
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Summary: Poor introduction and a so-so reference
Comment: As many reviewers have noted, this book is a poor choice for those seeking an introduction to LaTeX. However, I find that I rarely use it as a reference either; it often takes me much longer to find information in this book than on the internet. The index is horribly designed, using the same index for concepts and commands. Finding something in this book feels like finding something in code.
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Summary: The best guide for everyday use
Comment: For anyone coming to LaTeX from a background in mathematics many sources of help are available, but it is more difficult for someone coming to it from a feeling of dissatisfaction with the results obtainable with typical WYSIWYG word processors. When you are surrounded by people who think that Word is wonderful and that its equation editor can handle any equations you need, getting to the point with LaTeX where you can use it to advantage may seem more trouble than it is worth. You will probably start with Leslie Lamport's "LaTeX: a document preparation system", but although that is a good and authoritative start it is not really enough, as there is a great deal more to know than can be found in a short book, and in particular you need to know about all that is now available in the form of packages.
Fortunately there are some excellent sources of more detailed information, and two of these stand out: Kopka and Daly's "Guide to LaTeX" and Mittelbach and Goossens's "LaTeX Companion". I acquired both of these about six months ago, but decided to defer posting reviews until I had discovered by experience which of them I actually used more, and the winner is clearly Kopka and Daly, mainly because it is much the easier to find one's way around. It is quite adequate as a complete guide to LaTeX (i.e. you don't really need to start with Lamport, though it's probably a good idea if you do), as the opening chapter on "basics" really is about basics, and the book progresses from there in a reasonably gentle way..
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