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The LaTeX Companions Third Revised Boxed Set: A Complete Guide and Reference for Preparing, Illustrating and Publishing Technical Documents (2nd Edition)

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After having collected many books on LaTeX i consider this set the best reference set of books on LaTeX. If one is serious about using LaTeX this is the initial must have set of LaTeX books

The set is wonderful quick reference! If you are LaTeX user, then its likely that you are aware of thousands of manuals spread all over the place in the LaTeX structure, and everywhere else. These book comes in extremely handy when you are busy writing up a document in LaTeX and do not want to spend hours searching through countless online/electronic manuals. I found all four books very useful. I usually go to "Guide to LaTeX" By Kopka and Daly, and if they didn't go in enough depth, then it's to The LaTeX Companion book which usually finish the job. Whenever I wanted a more specialized info on presentation/graphics, it's "The LaTeX Graphics companion" time. I do not write much Web-related materials, but the book, "The LaTeX Web Companion" has excellent section on making PDF files which I use for presentation materials.

First of all... you have almost everything available in the web... but again it is nice addition on the library for quick results... sometimes easier than going around the web...

If you know how to make a google search, probably you do not need most part of those books...

Again though, I like the fact of having everything available in a book... You can take a book anywhere... but maybe not your internet connection ;)

Finally, the reason I give it 4 stars is because their index needs major improvement.

Is the reference book typeset in latex. The first volume of "the latex companions" has everything you need to learn latex with clear examples and simple, the second was a surprise for me especially to discover "Pstricks" with all its graphics power. And third, the conversion to HTML and XML

Uma ótima coleção de livros sobre composição de documentos em Latex. Os livros possuem ótimas qualidades, tanto no conteúdo quanto na parte visual. Para quem gosta de ler e estudar sobre o assunto, vale a pena adquirir a coleção.

This is a wonderful resource for anyone developing LaTeX documents.

The LaTeX Companions Third Revised Boxed Set: A Complete Guide and Reference for Preparing, Illustrating and Publishing Technical Documents (3rd Edition)