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.