Subject: Latex documentation for beginners?

From: Johann Spies <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 19:41:41 GMT

I relatively new to Linux and totally new to TeX and LateX.

I downloaded Debian 1.1 and enough of the TeX an LateX-files to get LateX
running on my computer.  My problem is that the documentation supposes a
fair degree of knowledge of the philosophy behind TeX and LateX.

As a tradisional Wordperfect user in a Dos-environment, I do not know where
to start, how to create and view a document, how to print and I do not find
anything in the Info-manual that could explain it to me except the reference
to two books I should read about Latex.  The documentation explains a of
commands, but there is no introduction to Latex.

Is there any introduction to LateX available somewhere?  I do not want to
buy a book (and they are quite expensive here) before knowing enough to
decide whether I want to use the product seriously.

Johann Spies

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From: RHS Linux User <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 19:37:34 +0200 (MET DST)

Hi

you can find some manuals in the 

/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/doc/latex/general

there is a manual called guide.dvi

anyway you could look for the latexcook book in starlink home page.
http://star-www.rl.ac.uk

if you want I can send you several manuals.

cheers

miguel