On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 03:58 AM, Andreas Gschwendtner
wrote:
On Dienstag, September 3, 2002, at 05:47 Uhr, Juan Manuel Palacios
wrote:
Just one question to you Andreas, if I may:
On Tuesday, September 3, 2002, at 11:11 AM, Andreas Gschwendtner
wrote:
Lamport's LaTeX Handbook is *very* well written but doesn't
cover all the details. It's good for a start: buy that one, if you
want to learn the basics of typesetting with LaTeX.
If you want to go a little deeper, Kopka's book is excellent. If you
intend to use LaTeX a lot and to write more than "10-page-papers", you
should definitely read it, as it covers almost all the questions that
arise when you use LaTeX heavily. It is great as a reference. The
downside is, that it is quite expensive if you buy all three
volumes...(but I think it is worth the money!).
What three volumes? Everywhere I've looked I've seen Kopka's book as
a one tome publication. Take Amazon, for example, if you look for
Latex publications there you'll see Kopka's book as a single volume,
no more tomes. Where could I check this out? Is the one sold at Amazon
the first tome?
:-/ hmm... well... I just checked on Amazon.de and Amazon.com -- and I
am not so sure now if we are talking about the same book(s). I have
three books by Helmut Kopka, written in German (I think he is German,
isn't he?):
1. LaTeX I: Einführung (=Introduction)
2. LaTeX II: Ergänzungen. Mit einer Einführung in Metafont.
(=Additions and Introduction to Metafont)
3. LaTeX III: Erweiterungen (=Expansions)
I don't know if these books have been translated to English -- maybe
somebody can clarify?
In Kopka & Daly's "A Guide to LaTeX" they say (page viii): "The great
success of Helmut Kopka's book 'LaTeX, eine
0000,0000,0000Einführung in Germany has led to
many requests for an English translation...".
But it is more than that: "A straightforward translation of the German
book would not be particularly useful, since it contains considerable
information on the application to German texts. For this reason,
Patrick W. Daly has undertaken to produce an English version of
Kopka's work, adding the sections on international and multilingual
LaTeX...".
By the way, I haven't seen any mention to Alan Hoenig's "TeX
Unbound", which has very good reviews in Amazon. I don't have it, but
I want to buy it. Has any one of you read it?
Axel