The LaTeX Project
The LaTeX Project
A comprehensive list of books on LaTeX and related topics in English, French, German, and Spanish. All books are useful resources for everybody from new users who wish to learn, to experienced users who are looking for a reference.
This page lists books on LaTeX and books on related topics like TeX, fonts, and encoding.
The publications page lists all articles and other publications by members of the LaTeX Project Team ordered chronologically or by topic.
Edition: 2nd edition
Authors: Leslie Lamport
Language: English
Date: 1994
Publisher: Addison Wesley
ISBN-10: 0201529831
ISBN-13: 978-0201529838
Pages: 288 pages
There is an errata file for this book.
Edition: 3rd edition
Authors: Frank Mittelbach with Ulrike Fischer
Date: 2023
Language: English
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN-13: 978-0-13-816648-9
Pages: 976 (Part I) and 1008 (Part II) pages
Compared to the previous edition the third edition nearly doubled in size.
The print edition is therefore produced as a two-volume set — the above information links to this bundle.
It is also available as an eBook (Part I and II combined)
consisting of PDF and ePub format without DRM. Finally, the publisher
offers the combination of the printed books + the digital versions
at a very attractive price not available anywhere else.
Some distributors offer the two parts of the edition also individually, but usually for a much higher price compared to the bundle.
Also important is that the digital version offered by some resellers only contains either the ePub or the PDF but not both! We therefore recommend that you watch out for this.
In Europe it might be easier to buy the print edition from bookshops or from resellers such as Amazon to avoid having to deal with import/customs fees, e.g. by using Amazon.de in Germany. However, note that the combination of print and digital formats is only available from the publisher’s InformIT site through the link above.
There are some extracts from the third edition as PDF files to offer some impressions of its coverage:
As hard as you try books are never without some errors. Thus, as always we provide an errata file that can be customized to show only errata relevant for printing you own (along with a precompiled PDF version). We also run a competition among those who help us weed out any mistakes we have made, see the details in the errata file.
Edition: 2nd edition
Authors: Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens, Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, Chris Rowley
Date: 2004
Language: English
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN-10: 0201362996
ISBN-13: 978-0201362992
Pages: 1120 pages
Also available as an eBook bundle consisting of PDF and ePub format without DRM, see news entry for more information.
There is an errata file (along with a PDF version).
Edition: 2nd edition
Authors: Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Sebastian Rahtz, Denis Roegel, Herbert Voß
Language: English
Date: 2007
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN-10: 0321508920
ISBN-13: 078-5342508925
Pages: 976 pages
The book is no longer available from Addision-Wesely but is now reprinted by Lehmanns Media.
Edition: 2nd edition
Authors: Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Sebastian Rahtz, Denis Roegel, Herbert Voß
Language: English
Date: 2022 (reprint of the 2009 version with corrections)
Publisher: Lehmanns Media
ISBN-13: 978-3-96543-303-8 (softcover)
ISBN-13: 978-3-96543-299-4 (ebook)
Pages: 976 pages
There are some extracts from the book as PDF files available from this site:
There is an errata file (along with a PDF version).
Edition: 1st edition
Authors: Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz
Language: English
Date: 1999
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN-10: 0201433117
ISBN-13: 978-0201433111
Pages: 560 pages
Edition: 4th edition
Authors: Helmut Kopka, Patrick W. Daly
Language: English
Date: 2003
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN-10: 0321173856
ISBN-13: 978-0321173850
Pages: 624 pages
These days it is available as an eBook in ePub format without DRM.
Edition: 1st edition
Author: Stefan Kottwitz
Language: English
Date: 2011
Publisher: Packt Publishing
ISBN-10: 0321173856
ISBN-13: 978-1847199867
Pages: 336 pages
The LaTeX Beginner’s Guide is packed with useful examples and explanations.
Edition: -
Author: Wikibooks
Language: English
Date: -
Publisher: Wikibooks
ISBN-10: -
ISBN-13: -
Pages: ~214 pages
From Wikibooks, this open-content textbook is intended to serve new users who wish to learn as well as old hands who need a quick reference. The book has a collection providing an on-demand PDF version as well as a printed book. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.
Edition: 2e édition
Authors: Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens, Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, Chris Rowley
Language: French
Date: 2006
Publisher: Pearson
ISBN-10: 2-7440-7182-X
ISBN-13: 978-2-7440-7182-9
Pages: 1116 pages
Ce livre est la traduction de la 2e édition du The LaTeX Companion, 2nd edition (TTCT series) (voir ci-dessus). Des extraits du livre sont disponibles sur ce site: texte complet de l’annexe B, «Détecter et résoudre; les problèmes» file (463 kB)
This book is a translation of The LaTeX Companion, 2nd edition (TTCT series). There is an extract from the book as PDF files available from this site: full text of appendix B, «Tracing and resolving problems» file (463 kB)
Edition: 2nd edition
Authors: Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens, Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, Chris Rowley
Language: German
Date: 2010
Publisher: Pearson Studium
ISBN-10: 386894088X
ISBN-13: 978-3868940886
Pages: 1168 pages
This is a re-issue (student version) of the book Der LaTeX-Begleiter, 2. Auflage (ISBN 3-8273-7166-X) with identical content. This book is a translation of The LaTeX Companion, 2nd edition (TTCT series) with a number of adaptations to the German language.
There are some extracts from the book as PDF files available from this site:
There is an errata file (along with a PDF version).
Jürgen Fenn has written a review for the german TeX magazine “Die TeXnische Komödie”. It is available as a PDF file (473 kB).
Edition: 1st edition
Author: Herbert Voß
Language: German
Date: 2012
Publisher: Lehmanns
ISBN-10: 3865414621
ISBN-13: 978-3865414625
Pages: 944 pages
Herbert has written several other books on LaTeX topics, check out his author page on amazon.de and on amazon.com.
Edition: 7th edition
Author: Joachim Schlosser
Language: German
Date: 2021
Publisher: mitp
ISBN-10: 3747504469
ISBN-13: 978-3747504468
Pages: 328 pages
Edition: 2nd edition
Authors: Alexander Borbon A., Walter Mora F.
Language: Spanish
Date: 2022
Publisher: Revista digital Matemática Educación e Internet
ISBN-13: 978-9977-66-227-5
Pages: 311 pages
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
The cover page changes once in a while so the above is an older one. Updated revisions also got new links in the past so you may have to search at Revista digital Matemática Educación e Internet if the above link is suddenly no longer valid.
Edition: 1st edition
Authors: Bernardo Cascales Salinas, Pascual Lucas Saorín, José Manuel Mira Ros, Antonio Pallarés Ruiz, Salvador Sánchez-Pedreño Guillén
Language: Spanish
Date: 2003
Publisher: Pearson Educacion
ISBN-10: 8420537799
ISBN-13: 9788420537795
Pages: -
May be difficult to find these days.
Edition: 1st edition
Author: Donald E. Knuth
Language: English
Date: 1986
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN-10: 0-201-13447-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-201-13447-6
Pages: 496 pages
Edition: 1st edition
Author: Donald E. Knuth
Language: English
Date: 1986
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN-13: 978-0-201-13448-7
Pages: 624 pages
Edition: 1st edition
Author: Yannis Haralambous
Language: English
Date: 2007
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
ISBN-10: 0596102429
ISBN-13: 978-0596102425
Pages: 1040 pages
Edition: 1st edition
Author: Donald E. Knuth
Language: French
Date: 2003
Publisher: Vuibert
ISBN-10: 2711748197
ISBN-13: 978-2711748198
Pages: 555 pages
Edition: 1st edition
Author: Yannis Haralambous
Language: French
Date: 2004
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
ISBN-10: 284177273X
ISBN-13: 978-2841772735
Pages: 1012 pages