General documentation about (La)TeX

• Announcement of LaTeX2e in 1993
• LaTeX News : Issue 1 DVI/PDF - Issue 2 DVI/PDF - Issue 3 DVI/PDF - Issue 4 DVI/PDF - Issue 5 DVI/PDF - Issue 6 DVI/PDF - Issue 7 DVI/PDF - Issue 8 DVI/PDF - Issue 9 DVI/PDF Issue 10 DVI/PDF
• The New Standard LaTeX
• A Simplified Introduction to LaTeX (Compressed PS) (Harvey J. Greenberg, 2000)
• The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e (Tobias Oetiker, Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna, Elisabeth Schlegl) (pdf) (ps) (Translation of the above into english)
• LaTeX2e, un aperçu (in french) (Michel Goossens)
• The complete, commented LaTeX2e sources
• TeXinfo file documenting LaTeX2e (Stephen Gilmore, Piet van Oostrum, Torsten Martinsen)
• LaTeX help (version 1.6)

• usrguide (LaTeX2e for authors) - HTML version
• clsguide (LaTeX2e for class and package writers) - HTML version
• fntguide (LaTeX2e font selection) - HTML version
• cfgguide (Configuration options for LaTeX2e) - HTML version
• modguide (Modifying LaTeX2e) - version html

• The LaTeX Project home page
• LaTeX3 (Frank Mittelbach & Chris Rowley)
• Some ideas for improving LaTeX (David Rhead) (138 pages, 321972 bytes)
• The ``operational requirement'' for support of bibliographic references by LaTeX3 (David Rhead) (13 pages, 59412 bytes) (citations are incomplete)
• Structures to be supported (David Rhead) (11 pages, 27904 bytes)

• The TeX faq (Postscript version)
• The complete TeX source (Donald E. Knuth)
• TeX Cookbook (see also HTML version)

• volumes 1 to 5
• volumes 6 to 10
• volumes 11 to 15

• Some interesting articles from the MAPS bulletin (Dutch TeX users' group)

• University of British Columbia
• Cambridge University Engineering Department (Tim Love)
• Venezuela local guide

• A Guide to use Macros and Style Files in LaTeX (Tetsuo Iwakuma & Tetsuo Furukawa)
• An introduction to TeX and friends (Gavin Maltby)
• A Gentle Introduction to TeX (Michael Doob) (french translation -- PDF)
• Wilkins' guides (D. R. Wilkins)
  • Getting Started with LaTeX
  • Summary of Commonly-Used Features of LaTeX
  • Getting Started with Plain TeX
  • Summary of Commonly-Used Features of Plain TeX
• Document Preparation with LaTeX (Sam Nelson, 1990)
• Introduction to LaTeX (1992) (from here)
• TeX Made Easy (Daniel M. Zirin)
• Essential LaTeX: (1) (Jon Warbrick) (2) (David Carlisle)
• Using TeX on the Vax to typeset documents: a primer (Joseph E. St Sauver, December 1990) (without appendices)
• What is TeX and METAfont all about? (Kees van der Laan)
• The Components of TeX (Joachim Schrod)
• A permutted index for TeX and LaTeX (Bill Cheswick)
• The TeXbook (source TeX) (Donald E. Knuth)
• TeX by Topic (PDF) (Victor Eijkhout, made freely available on December 23, 2001, see his page)
• File format specifications for DVI, TFM, GF and PK files
• TeX by example (excerpt) (Arvind Borde)
• Some control sequences of Plain TeX (8 pages)
• Essential LaTeX ++ (Jon Warbrick, David Carlisle, Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz, Adrian Clark) (27 pages)
• LaTeX Command Summary (Chris Biemesderfer) (16 pages)
• TeX Primitive Control Sequences (David Bausum, 1999)
• Hypertext guide for LaTeX
• Word Processing Using LaTeX (Tim Love) (November 15, 1991, 6 pages)
• Advanced LaTeX (Tim Love) (September 4, 1994, 21 pages)
• LaTeX maths and graphics (Tim Love) (September 4, 1994, 15 pages)
• CUED Document Preparation Facilities and Local Guide (Ian Green, Tim Love) (September 4, 1994, 29 pages)
• Hypertext Help with LaTeX
• LaTeX2e. Eine Einführung. (from here) (Heiner Lamprecht, 2000)
• Das kleine TeXbuch (Ralf Hinze) (in German) (from here)
• Getting to Grips with LaTeX (Andrew Roberts, 2004)

• Short Math Guide for LaTeX (Michael Downes)
• Math into LaTeX: A short course (George Grätzer)
  • Presentation
  • Math into LaTeX: A short course (pdf)
  • Additional information
• Mathmode (local copy) (Herbert Voss, 2004)
• Design Science, Inc.

• Surviving in a multi-lingual world with multiple font encodings (Jiri Zlatuska) (1994, 8 pages)
• The Experience of TeX: Typesetting and Beyond (Jiri Zlatuska) (September 1993, 15 pages)
• Articles de Petr Olsák sur TeX (en tchèque)

• TUG 99

• The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) (George D. Greenwade)

• Presentation of TeX and links for Macintosh users (in French)
• A Brief Guide to LaTeX Tools for Web Publishing (Peter Wilson, 2000) (from here)

• Une courte (?) introduction a LaTeX2e (Tobias Oetiker, Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna, Elisabeth Schlegl) (Translation from german into french) (pdf) (ps)
• Apprends LaTeX! (old HTML version (Marc Baudoin) old PDF version (manuel of the ENSTA school)
• Introduction à TeX -- manuel d'auto-formation (pdf)
• LaTeX (2.09) - Manuel utilisateur simplifié (Chantal Simian)
• Joli manuel pour LaTeX2e (Compressed PS) (Benjamin Bayart) (25 October 1995, 115 pages, 2386696 bytes) (bad) PDF version
• Aide mémoire pour LaTeX (C. Willems et F. Geraerds) (4 July 1996)
• Guide d'introduction français au traitement de texte LaTeX (F. Geraerds) (1997)
• The LaTeX Companion: Article written by Karl Tombre for Inforum (internal newsletter for LORIA) (EC fonts) (Postscript version)
• Aide-mémoire LaTeX PDF compressed PS (Vincent Seguin) (1998)
• Présentation rapide de LaTeX2e (Florent Rougon, 2001)

• Guida locale all'uso del LaTeX (Roberto Cecchini)

• LaTeX2e-Kurzbeschreibung (Jörg Knappen, Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna, Elisabeth Schlegl)

• The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e (translation)

• The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e (translation)