[OS X TeX] Practical TeX

[Yvon Thoraval]

Hey George,

I would like to review your new book.

By way of qualifications, I'm using TeX, LaTeX and XeTeX since heighties,
with math, essentially   Categories Theory using pstricks.

Presently I'm under retirement continuing using XeTex, had been Maths prof
at french university.

best

Yvon


2013/10/22 Josep Maria Font <jmfont at ub.edu>

> On 22 Oct 2013, at 09:43, Ralph Martin <Ralph.Martin at cs.cardiff.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > On 17 Oct 2013, at 17:31, George Gratzer <gratzer at me.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm a few days away from finishing the first draft of
> >>
> >> Practical LaTeX
> >>
> >> It's a short book (200+ pages) focusing on everyday documents with
> formulas.
> >>
> >> To keep Practical LaTeX short, I do not discuss books, makeindex,
> bibtex, and a lot more stuff.
> >
> > I think you are making a mistake leaving out bibtex. Pretty much EVERY
> document any of the students here does has to have a bibliography, which
> uses bibtex.
>
> I agree. Perhaps it is not essential to explain how to build the database,
> how entries and fields are specified and formatted, etc. But it should not
> be very complicated to explain just how to use it, assuming the .bib
> database is around (in my dept., for instance, there is a very large shared
> data base stored in a server). Following LaTeX main principle of
> concentrating on the contents and letting the formatting work to the
> designers.
>
>
> JMaF
>
>
>
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