Useful Links

Contributed Documentation and articles on LaTeX

• TeXdoc Online - TeX and LaTeX Documentation
  Dedicated server for querying and browsing manuals, guides and package documentation.
• LaTeX: an introduction
  This is a one-page high-level overview of LaTeX, by Mike Unwalla. It was published in ‘Communicator’, Spring 2006.
• The (Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e
  This document by Tobias Oetiker et al is a very good beginner’s tutorial. There are a number of translations into other languages than English available.
• LaTeX: Structured documents for TeX (unofficial LaTeX reference manual)
  This document is an unofficial reference manual for LaTeX developed over many years by various volunteers. It is available in several languages, i.e., English, French and Spanish. The document is developed further and you find the current development versions and new releases here.
• Formatting information – An introduction to typesetting with LaTeX
  A fairly comprehensive online-book about LaTeX written by Peter Flynn.

FAQ’s

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for English-speaking users of TeX
  The information is maintained by a group of “curators”, with contributions from a very wide range of people over many years. It has its origin in the UK TeX FAQ.

  The questions answered here cover a wide range of topics, but typesetting issues are mostly covered from the viewpoint of a LaTeX user.

• A Visual LaTeX FAQ
  Having trouble finding the answer to a LaTeX question? The Visual LaTeX FAQ is an innovative new search interface that presents over a hundred typeset samples of frequently requested document formatting. Simply click on a hyperlinked piece of text and the Visual LaTeX FAQ will send your Web browser to the appropriate page in the TeX FAQ. By Scott Pakin.

Question and Answer Websites

English

• TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange
  Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for users of TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and related typesetting systems.
• LaTeX Community
  An active community with a lot of LaTeX knowledge available.
• r/LaTeX subreddit
  Another active question and answer site that also exhibits showcases and other material.

German

• TeXwelt
  TeX und LaTeX, Fragen und Antworten. (German)
• goLaTeX LaTeX Forum
  Active a set of LaTeX forums. (German)

Tutorials

• An interactive LaTeX course for beginners
  Initiated by members of the LaTeX Project Team this course with 16 main lessons is available in multiple languages. It offers interactive exercises, allowing you to run LaTeX in the browser without having to install it upfront. Highly recommended for beginners.
• Video tutorials on various LaTeX topics
  This channel shows a growing collection of high-quality video tutorials from the folks from ShareLaTeX (an online editor for LaTeX) on different aspects of LaTeX, currently a beginners series, a series on Thesis writing, a series on beamer, and one on TikZ. The tutorials are not specific to the editor, so they are worth watching by anybody who wants to get a first impression on a particular topic. Of course, video tutorials can never address all aspects, but these have enough detail to get you started.
• Getting to grips with LaTeX
  A collection of tutorials meant to get people going with LaTeX, by Andrew Roberts.
• Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX2e
  This article by Keith Reckdahl shows you how to do (almost) anything with graphics: side-by-side, rotated, etc. There is also a French translation available.

User Groups

• TeX Users Group
  The TeX Users Group web site (International).

• Dante - Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX (German)
  The web site of German TeX Users Group. You will find a lot of information and tutorials.

• Gutenberg (French)
  The web site of the French speaking TeX Users Group. You will find publications, tutorials and more.

• UK-TUG
  The web site holding the archives the UK TeX Users Group. UKTUG is no longer in existance but the archive holds interesting historical material. They also published a lot of their meeting sessions as videos.

• TeX user groups around the world
  There are many more user groups on TeX — most certainly one close to you … A listing of (all/most) TeX user groups around the world is maintained by the TeX Users Group.

News Groups

• comp.text.tex
  If you can’t find what you need in any of the links above, try a search of past postings to the Usenet news group comp.text.tex. One place where you can do that is Google Groups. If you are still puzzled, try posting to comp.text.tex. It’s a friendly group.