Other on-line LaTeX information
The Prime Sources
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- Virtually all TeX, LaTeX, and related software and documentation can
be obtained from CTAN, which has multiple ftp mirror sites.
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- Does not yet contain a lot of information.
Packages for publications
REVTeX
- The American Institute of Physics
accepts manuscripts for several of its journals in
REVTeX.
AASTeX
- Similarly, the American Astronomical Society
accepts manuscripts for several of its journals in
AASTeX (Version 4.0
as of May 1995).
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The AASTeX FAQ might be helpful.
Astronomers will also find
TeX and LaTeX Macros
for astronomers from STScI to be useful;
particular good is Chris Biemesderfer's
LaTeX
Command Summary.
AMSTeX
- The American Mathematical Society
has their own macro package,
AMSTeX.
FAQs
The UK TeX Users' Group's
FAQ
Page is searchable and up-to-date
An older TeX and LaTeX FAQ
is available from Emory Univ.
An ascii FAQ from the comp.text.tex
Newsgroup is available from Ohio State.
Copies of these Hypertext Help with LaTeX files
which might provide faster access, especially for sites outside
North America
These files may not be quite as up-to-date as the original files at
Goddard Institute for Space Studies,
New York City.
Please let me know (agxsg@giss.nasa.gov)
if you discover that any of these sites are no longer available or if you know of
additional sites.
Other hypertext resources
The current set of hypertext help files started with
Help on LaTeX,
Version 1.01 from O'Reilly Associates and originated from VMS help files.
Hypertext information
similar to the current set of files also originated from VMS help files.
Aspects of publishing with TeX and LaTeX is an
introduction to the philosophy of TeX and LaTeX.
Text
Processing Using LaTeX from Cambridge Univ. Engineering Dept.
includes excellent beginning and advanced hypertext manuals as well
as information in other formats.
For those with less experience with LaTeX, good introductory material includes
Sources for non-HTML documentation
The (La)TeX navigator from LORIA in
France is an excellent source of documentation and pointers to other
resources; top page is also in
English and
Deutsch.
Lots of documentation,
mostly PostScript, is available from King Lee at Calif. State Univ.,
Bakersfield.
LaTeX
documentation, from UCLA, also mostly (compressed) PostScript files.
Tex-related
documents from Cambridge Univ.; includes TeX Users Group newsletter
and many documents (mostly in dvi format).
LaTeX2e Documentation
from DESY is mostly PostScript.
Good pointers to more Web resources
TeX
homepage at Instituut-Lorentz, RU Leiden, NL has pointers to
local and nonlocal information.
Pointers to many European
TeX resource are available from bluesky.com (just in case you need
to hyphenate Nordic languages or want to typeset in Hebrew).
The Usenet newsgroup
comp.text.tex is a good
source of information and help (but read the FAQ before posting).
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Sheldon Green,
agxsg@giss.nasa.gov.
Links last verified 7 Dec 95.