[Discuss] TeX Resources?

[Deryk Barker]

Peter Scott wrote:
> At 01:40 PM 7/19/2007, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>>> Since I'm now starting to reach the point in my graduate studies 
>>> where I actually have to start doing some work on my thesis I have 
>>> of course been "encouraged" to become familiar with the TeX 
>>> typesetting system.
>>>
>>> Just was looking for a few favourite resources any of you have on 
>>> TeX, LaTeX, etc, particularly those geared towards writing academic 
>>> documents. I've of course found a few myself already by using my 
>>> GooFu, but figured there's more than a few TeXGuru's on here and was 
>>> wondering if there's any wisdom to be imparted upon a TeXN00b like 
>>> myself. :)
>>
>> TeX is probably too low level for your needs so go with LaTeX (which 
>> is just
>> a convenient front-end to TeX) or even something higher level such as a
>> DocBook front-end to LaTeX itself.
>
> I did tons of TeX stuff back in the day, and a fair amount of LaTeX. 
> Although I've only glanced at it, LyX looked pretty good and I'd 
> suggest checking it out.
>
I'm currently writing a textbook using the 1.5 beta of klyx. There are a 
few rough edges and some things that just don't seem to work at all, but 
the results look so pretty.