SOME MATERIALS ON TeX and LaTeX

Here is a collection of useful materials on TeX and LaTeX compiled and maintained by Professor Stephen Simpson which will get you started. It contains several TeX and LaTeX manuals there which can be printed out from WWW, although to print out a DVI file is rather tricky. I also recommend Professor Simpson's Notes for a Seminar on LaTeX and AMSLaTeX , Harvard TeX manual, and a LaTeX guide by Zhang Bin. The best way to learn TeX is to compare a TeX source of a paper with the paper itself. Here is a sample created by Dorin Dumitrascu which contains some professional commutative diagrams .  You can include  graphics files into your TeX document. I recently descovered  Xfig, a menu-driven tool that allows the user to draw and manipulate objects interactively under the X Window System. It is similar to drawing packages available under Macintosh or Windows. Many of the output formats, including Encapsulated Postscript, are useful for including graphics in TeX or LaTeX documents.