🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <CRAMER.92Apr8101332@clem.Eng.Sun.COM>, cramer@Eng.Sun.COM (Sam Cramer) writes:
|> [Apologies if this shows up twice; I sent this message out once before but
|> it appears not to have made it out of Sun].
|> 
|> A recent trip to the bookstore revealed a new crop of TeX and LaTeX books.
|> Any reviews from the net?  Plugs from authors are acceptable, too...

Yes, it's quite remarkable.

Now that you mention the bit about author's plugs, I'll set aside
my natural reticence in posting ( :-) :-) ) and drop a few names:

Seroul and Levy : A Beginner's Book of TeX
    excellent beginner's book. Well-written, surprisingly
    complete for a beginner's book. Of course, things like output routines
    do not get treated in depth; they only give a number of examples
    (cute ones, though).

Borde : TeX by Example
    like the title says, a number of examples so that you can pick
    what you need merely by leafing through the book. Left hand pages
    give the code to go with the right hand page output. Cute book,
    but not for reference purposes.

Snow : TeX for Beginners
    only leafed through it. Looks good. My impression is that
    Seroul and Levy is for academic beginners, Snow for not so scientifically
    minded folks. The prose talks more, takes you by the hand.

Eijkhout : TeX by Topic.
    since this is me, I won't pass a verdict. Reference book.
    Definitely not for beginners, but it's meant to last you for the
    rest of your TeXing days. Lots of nontrivial examples.

Bechtolsheim : TeX in practice (not yet out?)
    lots, lots, of examples in addition to the information.

Hahn : LaTeX for Everyone
    haven't got this one, but seen a review. Good in certain parts,
    less in others.

|> Sam

Victor