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Summary: A very useful book!
Review: This book is very good and well worth buying
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Summary: You will be lost if you want to start from the beginning
Review: This is definitely a reference manual, don't expect to learn from it if you are a beginner, you will feel in the middle of nowhere for anything you look, if that topic is not something you knew but you forgot
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Summary: This will become your Bible.....truly!
Review: This is the book you can't do without when it comes to LaTeX. Having your own copy of this guide is essential for beginners. It is packed with information that is well organized. It will show you the possibilities and remind you of the syntax for years.
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Summary: This book is USELESS
Review: This is the most useless reference manual I ever read. I wanted to just write a simple Latex document with a few tables and a couple of embedded graphics. This book was so inadequate that I found myself going to the web resources repeatedly. I believe the point of writing a reference book is to provide a compilation of enough information so the readers don't have to go fishing for information for themselves. In that regard, the author failed miserably. A book of this size should be a simple tutorial book. There's not enough content to serve any use as a reference book. Very Disappointed!
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Summary: Everything you need to know about LATEX
Review: This is the only book you will need on LATEX, however, you are required to make a few "leaps of faith" in understanding. The latex markup language is extremely powerful and sometimes you have to try things and discover the power for yourself. Having said that, the author does an amazing job of fitting so much information into such a thin book! Stick with it, persist with it a little, and you will come to know and love it. I write many papers in LaTeX and this is the only reference I have ever needed.
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Summary: Inane layout of subjects; extremely difficult to use.
Review: Unfortunately, poor organization of information and subjects in this book defeated its purpose as a utilitarian reference for LaTeX. Try Kopka's book instead.
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Summary: You'll need it, but ...
Review: We TeX-heads (with apologies to Knuth that I didn't say TeXnicians) should all bow to Lamport for his LaTeX package, a masterpiece of macro programming and design. That said, while you'll need a copy of this book with its handy tear-out card as a reference, it is not the best way to learn LaTeX. For that you need "LaTeX Line by Line" by Diller. The problem here is that Lamport created the package, but he hasn't organized the material very well to explain it. I remember back when I first encountered LaTeX (circa 1987) and tried to learn it with only the first edition of this book. That was truly an excercise in futility. It's much easier to come up to speed by NOT using Lamport's book as your primer. But go ahead, buy the book. You'll need the command reference and that little fold-out card... .
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