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- From: palmerp@math.orst.edu (Paul A Palmer)
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- Subject: Re: Any simple LaTeX guides available?
- Message-ID: <PALMERP.92Nov19191337@phoebus.math.orst.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 03:13:37 GMT
- Article-I.D.: phoebus.PALMERP.92Nov19191337
- References: <1992Nov19.041146.23913@citec.oz.au> <1992Nov19.070226.1922@latcs1.lat.oz.au>
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- Reply-To: Paul Palmer <palmerp@math.orst.edu>
- Organization: Dept. of Math, Oregon State University
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- In-reply-to: mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu's message of Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:48:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.114825.5843@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley) writes:
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- In article <1992Nov19.070226.1922@latcs1.lat.oz.au>, atiq@latcs1.lat.oz.au (Mohammed Atiquzzaman) writes:
- |> In article <1992Nov19.041146.23913@citec.oz.au> sgccseh@citec.oz.au (Steve Hocking) writes:
- |> > Where can I get the source to a guide to Latex? (Yes, I know about
- |> >the book included in the Unix TeX distribution, but dont know enough LaTeX
- |> >to pull the bits that stop it from formatting). If there is a postscript
- |> >document about, I can take that too.
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- If you just want some information to get you started, use archie to
- search for:
- essential "Essential LaTeX"
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- There are some other free guides available. Look on shsu.edu or
- rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de.
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- Here are instructions for getting essential latex:
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- ftp to TeX.ac.uk [134.151.40.18]
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- login as anonymous
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- cd [.MACROS.LATEX.STYLES.CONTRIB]
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- get hndout.sty
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- get elm.tex
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- cd [TEX-ARCHIVE.DOC]
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- get essential.tex
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- quit
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-
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- latex essential
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- latex elm
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- (and print them out or preview them)
- --
- Paul Palmer
- Department of Mathematics E-mail: palmerp@math.orst.edu
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