[lug] LaTeX, margins, font size

[Hugh Brown]

Some of them have been nice enough to create pdf's.  I learned on "The not
so short guide to latex"

It is an interesting dilemma though.

Hugh

"J. Wayde Allen"
> 
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, J. Wayde Allen wrote:
> 
> > that the glut of info has become hard to navigate.  There doesn't appear
> > to be a nice one stop URL that points you in all the right directions.  I
> > have always thought this was one of the weaknesses of LaTeX.
> 
> Oh another one of the problems I've had with learning LaTeX is that even
> although there is a LOT of documentation, the people writing it of course
> use LaTeX.  So ... you can get the documentation, but then you typically
> must use LaTeX to compile the documentation and display it.  At the very
> least you need to know about dvi files and that you can look at them using
> xdvi.
> 
> This results in a bit of a chicken and egg problem - you don't know LaTeX
> and need the documentation, but you have to know how to use LaTeX to
> create the documentation.  That kept me out of it for quite a while.
> 
> The good news is that LaTeX isn't really that hard, it just looks that way
> if you've never seen it before.
> 
> - Wayde
>   (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)