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Re: WANTED: Beginner's Guide to LaTeX

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From: Ravinder Bhumbla
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 21:30
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In article <Bx0L2B.3EE@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> droth@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (David Roth) writes:

#   If there are any online introductions, thar would be great...

There are some online introductions that don't seem to have been
mentioned:

1.	Your LaTeX distribution should have two files - small.tex and
sample.tex which are both a couple of pages long introductions.

2.	Get essentials.tex (available by anonymous ftp from
niord.shsu.edu:essential.dir).  It is a nice introduction.  Its README
file follows at the end.

3.	Searching David Jones' TeX-macro-index for the keyword
essential gives another file elm.tex which I wasn't aware of till now.
It is available at
ftp.tex.ac.uk:/pub/archive/macros/latex/styles/contrib


-Ravi-

                                 ESSENTIAL
                                 ---------
The ESSENTIAL package includes the files necessary to rebuild John
Warbrick's "Essential LaTeX".

You may retrieve the package of 2 files (including a LaTeX documentstyle
option used by the document) by including:
 SENDME ESSENTIAL
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). 
Processing this document requires both files, so this command is suggested.

The files are available for anonymous ftp retrieval from ftp.SHSU.edu in
the directory [FILESERV.ESSENTIAL].

Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes)
File                 Blocks  Description
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ESSENTIAL.TEX            81  "Essential LaTeX"
ESSENTIAL.HNDOUT_STY      7  HNDOUT.STY; used in "Essential LaTeX"
                             (identical to FILESERV's STY.HNDOUT)

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From: am299bv@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Ravinder Bhumbla)
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Subject: Re: WANTED: Beginner's Guide to LaTeX
Date: 31 Oct 92 21:30:50
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