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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.online>
Cc: David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: LaTeX tutorial (focused on what Org exports) ??
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2022 11:32:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mt73amos.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bknkbb98.fsf@tsdye.online>


On 2022-12-31, at 02:18, Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.online> wrote:

> David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Anyone have a recommendation for a LaTeX tutorial that would
>> (especially) help me understand the LaTeX exported by Org and how to
>> enhance what is exported (new document classes, etc.).  I don't want
>> to
>> bore you all with a lot of questions, so I'm looking for a good
>> book.
>
> Org's latex exporter is exceptionally capable.  AFAICT, it doesn't
> have practical limits on the LaTeX it produces, at least for my
> academic use case.  I'm able to use all of the LaTeX packages I've
> ever wanted to use.
>
> With the world of LaTeX at your feet, I recommend The LaTeX Companion
> by Mittelbach and Goosens.  My well-worn copy is almost 20 years old,
> and I use it as often now as when I did all of my writing in LaTeX.
> Of course, there are many new LaTeX packages in the last 20 years, but
> LaTeX was very capable at the turn of the millennium and the few new
> packages I use were easy to discover by browsing.

The "Not so short introduction to LaTeX" is also a pretty nice resource.

Also, I'm the coauthor of a (free as in beer, a bit less free as in
speech - CC-BY-NC) textbook on LaTeX, but it will probably be of no use
for you, since it's in Polish;-).

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl


  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-31 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-30 21:29 LaTeX tutorial (focused on what Org exports) ?? David Masterson
2022-12-31  1:18 ` Thomas S. Dye
2022-12-31 10:32   ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2023-01-01  7:08   ` David Masterson
2023-01-02 18:31   ` William Denton
2023-01-03  3:25     ` David Masterson
2022-12-31 11:55 ` Fraga, Eric
2023-01-01  7:12   ` David Masterson
2023-01-01  7:19     ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-01 13:18     ` Fraga, Eric
2023-01-01 13:43       ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-02 12:30         ` Fraga, Eric
2023-01-03  3:23           ` David Masterson
2023-01-03  9:10             ` Fraga, Eric
2023-01-04  0:12               ` David Masterson
     [not found]           ` <87o7rgmhcs.fsf@penguin>
2023-01-03  3:28             ` David Masterson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-01-04  7:18 Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2023-01-06  6:21 ` David Masterson
2023-01-06 18:07   ` William Denton
2023-01-06 23:57     ` David Masterson

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