LaTeX Beginner's Guide

by Stefan Kottwitz

Packed with fully explained examples, LaTeX Beginner's Guide is a hands-on introduction quickly leading a novice user to professional-quality results. If you are about to write mathematical or scientific papers, seminar handouts, or even plan to write a thesis, then this book offers you a fast-paced and practical introduction. Particularly during studying in school and university you will benefit much, as a mathematician or physicist as well as an engineer or a humanist. Everybody with high expectations who plans to write a paper or a book will be delighted by this stable software.

Genres: Programming, Writing, Nonfiction, Computer Science, Amazon, Software, Engineering

314 pages, Paperback

First published March 21, 2011

Reviews

[Joan]

If you go through all the chapters you should feel confident enough to work with latex without any problem.

I will keep it as a reference book. The wikibook is also a handy resource.

[Dipson Rimal]

Its an awesome book but the entire world of latex is not covered here. I would have rated 5 stars if chapters on tikz package would have been added.

[Jefim]

It is a decent textbook, a good introduction to the subject of technical typesetting. There is a caveat, I read about 25% of the book. But the problems became clear by that point. The problem is that it tries to throw too many things at you at once. It loses a star for that alone. I have intense attention to detail and the dated code examples throw up warnings highlighted by my compiler which makes for an eyesore. Final verdict: 3/5 for the 1st Edition, currently trying my luck with the 2nd edition.

[Lime Street Labrador]

It is okay, going through the basics, but not in a particularly good format.
I think it tries to introduce too many packages, and should instead focus on the default commands and widely used packages.

[Till]

Best intro for LaTeX

[Alexander Damian]

Awesome, from the beginning to the end.

[Daniel Y. Dimitrov]

One of the best introductory guides to LaTeX. Didactically very well organized, with practical exercises/examples. Definitely one of my top LaTex reference books.