Books on LaTeX

You will need some kind of handbook on LaTeX to know how to use its mathematical typesetting features and for examples of things like tables. Unfortunately books on LaTeX are rare compared to those on word processors but they do exist a couple nice booklets can be had for free. Check out...

Free Booklets on LaTeX

Some generous people have produced instructive booklets on LaTeX and made them available to everyone over the web:

A Simplified Introduction to LaTeX by Harvey Greenberg at U Col Denver. (Link is at http://samizdat.mines.edu/latex/)
Grab the ps file from this page.
Getting Started With LaTeX, by David Wilkins. (link is at http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/LaTeXPrimer/)
Grab the source or DVI file from the top of this page.
The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX 2e (Link is at http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/lshort/)
Download the pdf file lshort.pdf from this site.)
Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX by Keith Reckdahl.
A fine guide to using the graphicx package. Click on this and the PDF of the document will come up. Save it or print it.
Graphics and Colour with LaTeX by Patrick Daly.
Another article on using graphics in LaTeX. Click and get the PDf document.

Not-So-Free Books on TeX

While it is possible to find a copy or two of the following books in a large Bookestore like Borders or B & N, you may have to mail-order them. Links are given to Amazon.com from whom I get only a small kickback.

LaTeX, A Document Preparation System, 2^nd ed. , Leslie Lamport, Addison-Wesley 1994
A Guide to LaTeX, 3^rd ed. , H. Kopka and P. Daly, Addison-Wesley 1999
The LaTeX Companion , M. Goossens et al, Addison-Wesley 1993
The LaTeX Graphics Companion , M. Goossens et al, Addison-Wesley 1997