LaTeX

This page collects my personal insights in using LaTeX, the incredible free typesetting system (where »incredible« includes, but is not restricted to, positive aspects of the whole thing).

I would very much like to make part of this into a true wiki – I am still figuring out how to best achieve this. The below listing is tentative and will be filled with content as I find the time.

• A modern preamble: how should all of my tex-files start?
• LaTeX Dont's: common errors and how to avoid them.
• Choose your fonts, wisely (LaTeX): to hell with \usepackage{times} (but not with Times!).
• Juggling with spacings and alignments: a million ways of inserting and removing space in LaTeX.
• The jaggy screenshot disease
• Preparing slides with LaTeX
• …

Further reading

Wikipedia's article on LaTeX has a good list of introductory and advanced references. Personally, I learned all my LaTeX from online resources, most notably

• the not so short introduction to LaTeX2e,
• the comprehensive list of LaTeX symbols,
• the Fernuni Hagen's extended LaTeX courses for beginners and for advanced users (German),

as well as from the resepective manuals of specific packages such as XYpic and Beamer.