Links
There's a lot of documentation, tutorials, etc. out there that was not written by the LaTeX team themselves. We've started a list pointing to some of it (the order is fairly arbitrary and no indication of quality).
If you know about a great resource for TeX and related documentation not listed here, please contact us.
Contributed Documentation
- TeXdoc Online - TeX and LaTeX Documentation
Dedicated server for querying and browsing manuals, guides and package documentation. - Help On LaTeX Commands
Hypertext Help with LaTeX by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies. - An Introduction to Using TeX
Contains a brief explanation of how to typeset mathematical papers in the LaTeX2e flavor of TeX. - LaTeX: an introduction
This is a one-page high-level overview of LaTeX, by Mike Unwalla. It was recently published in ‘Communicator’, Spring 2006. - The (Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e
This document by Tobias Oetiker et al is a good beginner’s tutorial. There are a number of translations available. - LaTeX: Structured documents for TeX (unofficial LaTeX reference manual)
This document is an unofficial reference manual for LaTeX, a document preparation system. The document is developed further and you find the current development version and new releases here. - Formatting information – An introduction to typesetting with LaTeX
A fairly comprehensive online-book about LaTeX written by Peter Flynn.
FAQ’s
- Meta-FAQ
This is provided by the TeX Users Group. - UK TeX Users Group’s FAQ
The Visual LaTeX FAQ by Scott Pakin is a PDF document presenting examples of customized LaTeX formatting and formatting problems, hyperlinked to appropriate pages in the UK TUG FAQ. - A Visual LaTeX FAQ
Having trouble finding the answer to a LaTeX question? The Visual LaTeX FAQ is an innovative new search interface that presents over a hundred typeset samples of frequently requested document formatting. Simply click on a hyperlinked piece of text and the Visual LaTeX FAQ will send your Web browser to the appropriate page in the UK TeX FAQ. By Scott Pakin.
Question and Answer Websites
English
- TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange
Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for users of TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and related typesetting systems. - LaTeX Community
An active community with a lot of LaTeX knowledge available.
German
- TeXwelt
TeX und LaTeX, Fragen und Antworten. (German) - goLaTeX LaTeX Forum
Active a set of LaTeX forums. (German)
Tutorials
- Video tutorials on various LaTeX topics
This channel shows a growing collection of high-quality video tutorials from the folks from ShareLaTeX (an online editor for LaTeX) on different aspects of LaTeX, currently a beginners series, a series on Thesis writing, a series on beamer, and one on TikZ. The tutorials are not specific to the editor, so they are worth watching by anybody who wants to get a first impression on a particular topic. Of course, video tutorials can never address all aspects, but these have enough detail to get you started. - Getting to grips with LaTeX
A collection of tutorials meant to get people going with LaTeX, by Andrew Roberts. - Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX2e
This article by Keith Reckdahl shows you how to do (almost) anything with graphics: side-by-side, rotated, etc.
Directories
- Open Directory Project (DMOZ)
An excellent place to start surfing the Web for information about TeX and LaTeX.
User Groups
- TeX Users Group
The TeX Users Group web site. - TeX user groups around the world
Listing of TeX user groups around the world. Maintained by TeX Users Group.
News Groups
- comp.text.tex
If you can’t find what you need in any of the links above, try a search of past postings to the Usenet news group comp.text.tex. One place where you can do that is Google Groups. If you are still puzzled, try posting to comp.text.tex. It’s a friendly group.